Formalism Photography

By Eryca Froes and Brianna Aden

Ansel AdamsKnown for his naturalistic approach to photography

Title: Farm workers and Mt. WilliamsonDate: 1943- Internment of Japanese Americans at Manzanar, California.

Element: Texture & Space

Yousuf KarshKnown for his self profits of influential individuals of the time

Title:Ernest HemingwayDate:1957

Karsh referred to Hemingway as “a man of peculiar gentleness, and he attempted to display this gift for capturing the essence of his subjects”.

Element: Emphasis

Lewis HineKnown for his "Work Portraits” which demonstrate the working American class in an industrial setting.

Title: Power house mechanic working on steam pumpDate: 1920

Element: Unity

Peter EssickKnown for the “Ansel Adams” inspired photographs he contributed to several 2011

issues of National Geographic.

Title: Late summer thunderheads build above Garnet Lake.*Inspired by Ansel Adams

Date: 2011Element: Shapes

Henri Cartier-BressonKnown as the father of photojournalism

Title: Man Jumping Over Puddle,Date: 1932

Element: Balance

Dorothea LangeBest known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration

Title: Great DepressionDate: 1930’s

Element: Pattern

Philippe HalsmanMost famously known for his book Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas,

where he contributed a lot to the art of photography

Title: Just jumpDate:1958

Element: Movement

Elliott ErwittKnown for his photography featuring many different breads of dogs

Title: ParisDate:1989

Element: Space

Title:RomeDate: 1996

Element: Lines

Jacques Henri Lartigue

Most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women from the turn of the century..

Title: Le Jour des Drags auz courses a Auteuil ParisDate:1911

Element: Texture

Alfred Stieglitz

Title: Art of the Beautiful-GrotesqueDate: 2000

Element: Rhythm