Shuyao Wang's style paragraphs

The first book I borrowed is called the days with my father photographed by Phillip Toledano. Phillip Toledano (b. 1968) is a British photographer living and working in New York City. As an artist, he works across mediums from photography to installation. His conceptual themes are primarily socio-political. The pictures in the book are all about one person and his personal space’s stuff. The style of them is comparatively darker and give us a sense of ages. But we can feel great emotions of the person and connections between the author and object. The book is mainly about photos of author’s father when he spends times with him for his last three years after his mother’s death. During those three years, author recognizes his father and finds his father’s personality and accomplishment beyond a role of a father. Also, they become closer from the emotional expression. Although father died in the end, author still feels thankful to these three year. Because of them, he has a chance to discover his father’s love and how funny he is. I think the authors uses the phots to show what kind of person his father is and convey the whole feelings  towards his father during the process. He wants to record them since it is so meaning to him and convey his love and appreciation to his father. Thus, The whole book’s style is warm but a little bit depression. The main object is just focus on his father and some primary thinks which helps strength the main points of his father. I think he uses the long lens and big apertures to let the object focus and choose to have lower light meter to make the whole background darker than usual. 

The second book is called the crazy god photographed by Yvonne De Rosa. Yvonne De Rosa (born 1975 in Naples), is an Italian photographer. She said that ‘Photography represents the instrument that can take me, beyond the purely aesthetic of representations  and that led me to be passionate about the study of human being.’ Thus, most of her photos convey the human being and problem of society beyond the photos themselves. The pictures in the book are all took in one hospital. Thus, the style and accordatura are all very similar with color and complement. De Rosa uses pools of light to illuminate the dark corridors. And the window seems to serve as stark reminder of the bright world beyond its walls. Lenticular arches of sunlight lead the eye toward a window marking a dead end. The building seems to have its soul and character which told people the life people in the hospital had and their yearn for the normal life before. There are not any human being in the pictures. But the pictures still left with person and physical traces which makes people have the space to image their lives before. Author uses this way to convey people’s depression and isolation from the real world. She hopes to use this way to tell people that the label of mental illness facilitates the discrimination which is still a problem today. She hopes to use the photos to remind people the problem and human stories behind the fragment that they leave behind. She took a close photographing the things in the hospital but it include all the things in the photos are clear to see. I think she may uses the comparatively wide lens and small apertures to depicts the pictures with normal light meters since they light indoor is darker than the light outside. Thus, it makes the photos seems to have gray style. But the color of her picture is real pretty and seems to have texture which help strengthen the story of the them. She chooses a lot of representative thinks like the childlike drawing and photos patients took with their family to express their connection to the outside world and shots of lights to depict their yearn and hopeless. 

The third book I chose is the photographs took by GOTZ DIERGARTEN. Every photos in the book has the same style that they are both very brisk and bright. They are all about the building, blocks, labels, windows, fake brick, garage door, things that we are very familiar with in our daily life. But he uses different view angles and perspective to depict their beauty we did not notice in daily life. He did not photograph their whole appearance. Instead, he just chooses one part of compound which can show comfortable contrastive colors and words helps strength the aesthetic perception. Thus, he mainly transforms his objects into abstract colors spaces and fields. His work are characterized by the clear, documentary style which made the whole photos look very clean and organized. They are all used by frontal view, diffuse light, and close cropping. The only difference is just the objects themselves. There are also strong linked between typology and color by lighting and reflections. Within the images, he adheres closely to the object and the object in the image are very clear. I think he uses to long lens to make them. I think he may also use small aperture to depict the objects which have comfortable contrast colors with the background and big aperture to depict the images that strength the objects themself. I think he uses a comparative brighter light meter which help convey the sense of feeling of clean and brisk, too. Balancing the colors and formulating the ways to depict objects with the surrounding are the most important parts in his images. I think by looking at his photos, it could remind us to observe the daily things around us and find their beauty which we may not notice before.