andreas FeiningerIn Andreas early life he was an architect. He worked with
Le Corbusier for a year. Andreas said "realism and super realism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better. "He wasn't a people person but he wanted to carry on with his work without any disruptions. Feininger wasn't after 'photography' but he was after a photograph. "I want to get shots of the things I'm interested in. I use it as a means to an end." loomis deanHis father was an artist. Loomis went to art school
but soon discovered that he had no interest in art and he had a passion for photography. Before he went to work for LIFE in 1947 he sold bibles during the depression, put in four years as an assistant press agent for the Ringling Bros. According to Loomis- "LIFE almost single-handedly changed the image of the news photographer from a slovenly, tobacco-chewing slob under constant pressure... we knotted our ties and set of to con people into all sorts of things they frequently didn't want to do... in the final analysis, it was all the most fun in the world. |
cornell capa
18 year old Kornel Friedmann (later on changed his name by following his brother Robert Capa) learned about what he needed to know which was about the power of a camera from Roberts Spanish Civil war images. He said "I haven't taken a landscape picture which was not part of a story. If I saw a peasant working in a field, then I took the picture of a peasant with a field. But I didn't take a field without the peasant." On his attempt to shooting he said also said "the camera is an extension of yourself...your story treatment may be subjective but it is important to remain objective as to truth." He will always be remembered as "le petit capa"
eliot elisofonHe chose photography while working his way through Fordham, where he was premed but majored in philosophy. After graduating he forged a successful business in commercial photography, but then he gave it up to join LIFE. He said- "to try to take pictures that are impossible to take." He took his camera to dangerous places during ww2. While leaving north Africa his plane crashed and burned. War correspondent Ernie Pyle said "Elisofon was afraid like the rest of us. Yet he made himself go right into the teeth of danger. I never knew a more intense worker."
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