<Lee Friedlander>

  • Lee’s artist style follows a black & white color tone with city elements in the background. For this set of photos specifically, Lee uses a driver’s first person perspective to demonstrate the driver’s view of city. Due to its composition and placement of photo shooting, Lee seems to lean into natural lighting, although it won’t matter as much for black & white photos. In addition, Lee also creatively used the side mirror on the cars to generate a reflection, making it look like a separate frame within the original photo.
  • In comparison with the other photographers, Lee shares a similarity with Naoya in their subjects, which are city objects. Lee also shares a similarity with Lisette in color tones, both bring black & white. Lee’s photography is also rather different as its main expression is to present a perspective of city scape while other artists such as Naoya or Lisette lean more into expressing the beauty of lighting or abstract human expressions.
  • Unfortunately, Lee shares little to no connection with Robert as they have completely different subjects, perspectives, lightings, and meanings. Lee uses city views, first person, natural lighting, and expresses visual experience while Robert leans into studio setups and presents what he favors.

 

<Naoya Hatakeyama>

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  • Naoya’s artist style follows a blurry pattern with lights “shooting out” into the camera. In this set of Naoya’s pieces, a repetitional occurrence of blurry windows stained with rain drops can be seen. This is used to enhance the illustration of the subject, which is the blurred yet obvious objects behind the “windows”. Although these subjects differ from streets all the way to towers while shot in different perspectives, they all share this one common similarity and that is lights. Aside from these photos, many of Naoya’s other photo’s indicates that Naoya has an obsession with explosions, literally. Although there is no actual explosions in these pieces, that would explain why the lights, or better known as the subjects are “shooting” lights out as if it was an explosion of lights.
  • Naoya does not share much in common with the other artist, he has a very colorful tone and does not use cities or human as subjects. However, when compared to Robert, it is visible that both artists use sets of different colors to present their subjects, differing them from the background. In addition, Robert’s subjects are placed out on a surface, which to some degree looks like the aftermath of an explosion, where things got blown everywhere. Although this idea is very abstract, it indeed is a connection shared between Naoya and Robert.

 

<Lisette Model>

  • Lisette has a very different artist style compared to the others. Lisette likes to take black & white tone portraits of people, with some being slightly “abstract” or “weird”. This style of hers shows no literal “reflect” of one self but instead has the subject be the reflection themselves. This in a way can be understood as looking at oneself look at the past. The black & white tone greatly contributes to this message that is being communicated. Lisette also appears to use the rule of thirds a lot, probably due to the fact that she shoots portraits.
  • Compared to other photos, Lisette’s works are rather abstract and distinct, especially her first piece presented. A major contrast visible is the subjects. Although each photographer communicates some form of reflection, Lisette’s reflection particularly focus on human as subjects and expresses reflection in a more direct manner. Overall, through abstract reflection, Lisette’s work was able to stand out in the sea of photographs on similar topics.

 

<Robert Holden>

  • Robert is the most unique photographer amongst all. He is also the most “organized”. Robert’s style is distinct because of the way he photograph his subjects. His style brings the meaning presentation to its finest, making it as if his sharing of the subjects is all he wants. Robert uses a very interesting technique to attend his subject, spacing. He spaces out all of the objects out evenly creating almost what seems to be symmetry yet each object is different and unique. He also shows to be dexterous at spacing because he is able to control each subject’s position so perfectly that the audience is able to focus on every single one at the same time and not lose focus.
  • When it comes to comparison, Robert’s pieces are definitely the most differed ones. Although both him and Naoya uses colors to present their subjects, Naoya shares a more colorful tone while Robert’s subjects generally stick with similar colors. Aside from this factor, Robert’s photos are extremely different rather it is how many and in what way are his subjects presented or the techniques he uses such as framing and camera angels. Overall, Robert presents a more organized and formally framed image compared to other artists seen. It is more of a reflection on the objects to certain themes or events.