Lee Friedlander

Naoya Hatakeyama

Lisette Model

Antonio Gutierrez Pereira

Robert Holden’s Burning house project

Lee Friedlander developed the visual language of urban “social landscape.” Many of his photographs include fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs. Similarly, Naoya Hatakeyama explores human intervention with the landscape and natural materials, including city life and the built environment. Lisette Model, an Austrian-born American photographer primarily focuses on the frank humanism in her street photography. The aforementioned three photographers are all similar to one another because they all focus on the reflecting the urban landscape and exploring aspects of city life. However, these photographers use reflection in different ways. Friedlander uses the wing mirror of vehicles to reflect scenery opposite to the range of view of the camera. Hatakeyama uses water as a primary element in his photographs to reflect different types of lighting. Model uses windows to reflect both the human subject and the city landscape so that they overlap.

On the other hand, Antonio Gutierrez Pereira does not focus on reflecting the urban landscape but rather the personality and characteristics of a human. Like Model, he uses glass to distort the features of the human subject and reveal a perspective that has not been seen before.

Different from all of the other photographers, Robert Holden created a project where people would take pictures of belongings that they would bring if their house was burning, hence, it was named the burning house project. This project makes Holden different from the other photographers because it neither reflects an urban landscape nor the physical features of a human. Instead, it focuses on the internal reflection of someone by making them choose belongings that reflect on their daily life.