Mark seliger photography biography samples
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MARK SELIGER
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
So, one thing that you've said is that you're trying to–well, I guess this is more applying to your celebrity portraiture–is that you're trying to present something, get something that no one's gotten.
SELIGER
That's right.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
And how do you do that with some people we've seen so many times?
SELIGER
Well, I think it's all about the idea. You start from an idea. So many times when I'm explaining process to people, it has nothing to do with the technical, it has to do with the idea. The technical aspect is pretty easy because it's arithmetic, it's math.
And then when you come up with a great idea, then you're basing the outcome in terms of the way that you perceive it, preemptively see it, rather than necessarily just go out and take the picture. So I try to work from an emotional aspect of the way that I think about a photograph either through, I call it a wink, which is like giving it a sense of life and a sense of humor. Or just like an emotional response from my viewer.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
So we're looking at your book now Mark Seliger Photography.
SELIGER
And the first part is very art directed by a great designer by the name of Fred Woodward. And so as you start through the book, what we do is we g
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Monographs & Art Books / S
Africa
By Sebastião Salgado
Publisher : Taschen
2007 | 336 pages
Sebastião Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation forged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people, taken in places where most wouldn't dare to go. Although he has photographed throughout South America and around the globe, his work most heavily concentrates on Africa, where he has shot more than 40 reportage works over a period of 30 years. From the Dinka tribes in Sudan and the Himba in Namibia to gorillas and volcanoes in the lakes region to displaced peoples throughout the continent, Salgado shows us all facets of African life today. Whether he's documenting refugees or vast landscapes, Salgado knows exactly how to grab the essence of a moment so that when one sees his images one is involuntarily drawn into them. His images artfully teach us the disastrous effects of war, poverty, disease, and hostile climatic conditions.
This book brings together Salgado's photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Ug
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