Sara Beth Almquist's Comment Archive

  1. Sara Beth Almquist on Photographer of the week 09: Crewdson
    9:31 am, 03.22.12

    We took a brief look at Gregory Crewdson’s work last semester in intro to photography, and I couldn’t help but love each image. The lighting and subject are both extremely dramatic, and it amazes me that he and his crew spend hours setting up each scene to his exact specifications. I think I heard that he only takes one photo too, so it’s amazing that he achieves a cinematic quality with just one image.

  2. Sara Beth Almquist on Photographer of the week 08: Leibovitz
    9:08 am, 03.01.12

    Annie Leibovitz has an interesting take on photography. I love her images of celebrities, because many of them become relatable through her interpretation of each individual. She also does a wonderful rendition of many childhood fairytales. These images also use celebrities as the subjects, but because the images really capture the heart of our favorite stories, I didn’t even notice that the models were celebrities until I read a couple of the captions. She does a remarkable job, and her images are spectacular.

  3. Sara Beth Almquist on Photographer of the week 04: Caponigro
    9:15 am, 02.07.12

    John Paul’s photographs are phenomenal. He plays with composition and color, and the results are clear and unique. He seems to take ordinary things, like a wake in the water, and turn them into extraordinary objects simply by playing a bit with objects. The two series on Antarctica are wonderful in that some of them are compositionally balanced, and some of them throw out all we know about composition and push us over the edge in relation to placement of objects.

  4. Sara Beth Almquist on Photographer of the week 02: Misrach
    9:21 am, 01.24.12

    Misrach takes stunning landscape photographs. He seems to play a lot with inversion of the images, making them unique and stylized. I love landscape photography, too, as I love being outside. These photographs take me to places I’ve never been in a way I’ve never experienced nature before.