Lisa Eisele
Brown Mackie College
Capture the Beauty
Three photographers that have taken amazing photographs are Gregory Crewdson, Nicholas Samaras, and Ansel Adams. Although all of these photographers capture the perception of beauty and nature, they show some similarities but differ in many ways. Gregory Crewdson captures American realist landscape photography, Nicholas Samaras captures the sea underwater and its creatures to bring out the beauty of the marine life world, and Ansel Adams a very well-known photographer takes pictures of America’s natural wonders.
Gregory Crewdson grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in the Park Slope neighborhood. At a young age while attending high school he was actually able to graduate …show more content…
When he comes from his home in New York to these small towns he feels his creative urges coming to life. He’s photographs are elaborately staged and they are also influential. Some photography experts say that he has changed the course of photography through is photographs. Some of his photos have been sold for up to $125,000, which goes to fund productions of his photographs that cost almost as much as independent movies. All his photographs have the production values of a small movie. The small towns and neighborhoods that he visits, to shoot his photographs are just a backdrop for a more submerged psychological …show more content…
I picked this title because to me I see beauty in all three pictures. My art show would start by everyone arriving to an open theater like the Muny Opera in Forrest Park. As they walk up to the stage they would see straight in front of them the miraculous photo by Gregory Crewdson, of the women laying in her house flooded with water. To the right of the picture would be the picture taken by Nicholas Samaras. This picture lit with blue back lighting would be of the partial underwater cave. Finally to the left of Gregory Crewdson’s photo would be the photo of the famous Ansel Adams. This photo is of a mountain in the forest with a waterfall running down the center of the