Josh Santiago

  The photographer I chose from the Magnum Photos website is Bieke Depoorter. Bieke Depoorter became a nominee from Magnum Photos at just 25 years old. Depoorter took many photos with people. In the photo above it looks like a group of friends or a family in a car driving past trees with lights on them. In the picture below there is a woman looking out a window and in front of her there is a model town, with people, buildings, and trees, that is lit up. Bieke Depoorter has several more photographs on the website and each one of them says something about the people that are in them. I think Depoorter's photographs are incredibly interesting and I like the work she has done that can be seen on the Magnum Photos website.

The photographer I chose is Robert Mapplethorpe. I find his self portraits incredibly interesting. In the picture above he wore all black clothing that covered everything but his head and hand. This caused it to appear though he was just a head and a hand with a cane. In the picture below it seems like he is moving his head as the picture is being taken to create a blur of movement. Both pictures allude to him fading away or dying. His portraits are some of my favorite that we went over in class and I think he had great ideas to create the images he wanted. 

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    For this blog I chose Edward Honaker. I find all of his work incredibly interesting, and in some cases a little disturbing. The picture above I like because of the way it almost looks like his head has become pixelated and the pixels were moved around. It gives the idea that while physically he is fine, mentally he is a bit of a mess and all over the place. The picture below I find slightly disturbing because in it he has a hood over his head and a rope around his neck. This gives the idea that he is either about to be killed or is killing himself. These two pictures differ greatly but they are both interesting in how they were done. The picture above was likely edited while the picture below is probably, for the most part, untouched. Edward Honaker's work is a lot these pictures many are interesting and some are also slightly dark in their theme.