Garry Winogrand and Ralph Eugene Meatyard

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Fig. 1 Ralph Eugene Meatyard- Meatyard is possibly on of the oddest photographers of the 20th century. He was a dentist and the became a photographer until his death. Meatyard did odd work, he did a lot with his children in masks and he and his wife in masks. What does it all mean? What message was he trying to spread?

Fig. 2 Garry Winogrand- An ass hole with a camera is the first way i was described Winogrand. Most of his images are recognizable because in most of the images there is a slight maliciousness to the shots. In the picture above it seems as if the people will not get around the legless man as if he has the plague.

William Eggleston and Stephen Shore

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Fig. 1 Stephen Shore- In viewing stephen shore's work most of the images are very straight images. Such as his documentation of where he is from, Cape Cod. In this image i feel like i can really relate to this image especially most recently. The simple imagery that the Shore is known for or does most is in itself very powerful. The man above seems to be uncaring of the woman who is trying to get much more cozy with him. His staring into the camera also has him directly interacting with the audience which makes the woman the third wheel in the shot.

Just the simple way that the image is framed makes the place where the couch is located look very simple, like a vacation home. This would be along the lines as his Cape Cod project.

Fig. 2 William Eggleston- In this series Eggleston documented America at that time. There was never a time like that nor will there ever be another time like that. He took very slice of life images, but put in that context the images have a strong meaning. They are that time and they were the norm and every day of that time.

It would be nice if someone would actually do this project again. With our world making large changes every day in twenty years it will be completely unrecognizable and there will be no good record of this time, for the normal and average that is.

John Pfahl & Joel Meyerwitz.

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Fig. 1 Joel Meyerwitz- In these set of images Meyerwitz has photographed a group of people which have no soul. In essence he has photographed those who are shells of humans and compiled them into a book. This could be a comment on how we humans are really all empty on the inside and just try to blend in to the crowd such as the red heads do when they try to blend in with those that have souls.

On the other hand the subject matter of documenting a subdivision/subsection of humans in general like people who can wiggle their ears or not, in this case red heads is very interesting.

When i look at some of these images i cant help but wonder if he might have been more attracted to red heads. Males (or at least most males i know) have a strong attraction to red heads. This could possibly be a comment on this as well.

Fig 2. John Pfahl- This image is part of a series he did on piles. The subject of piles themselves are intriguing. Automatically I am reminded of the movie close encounters by speilburg. Immediately i think that these are important for some reason under this context.

Piles. Heaps. Mounds. Hills. Lumps. Bumps. A quantity of something. More, more, more. More money, more trash, more people, more wounded. Things are builded and builded stacked and stacked heaped and heaped.

up up up up up up up towards the heavens. the carcases layed and piled on top of eachother. these are the bodies the fat man in the big suit has been using and then dumping to expand his back pocket. The refuse is now littering our space while the man in the suit pays no mind. Count your gold coin.

(poems/utterings ive used to describe the images ive seen)