Diptych and Triptych
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Self- Portraits Research
Diane Arbus Photograph of Diane Arbus by Allan Arbus, 1949 Diane Arbus was born on 1923, in New York City. The photography best known for black and white portraits. Diane's main theme is to normalized the group of people, those who were seen as the outsiders of the society at that time. She mostly took pictures of people with mental illness, transgenders or circus performers. Diane Arbus captured the important highlight points that represent the person, in which to bring out the questions about their identity. Diane Arbus in New York, circa 1968 Link citation: http://www.artnet.com/artists/diane-arbus/
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Dorothea Lange Aaron Siskind The two photographers Dorothea Lange and Aaron Siskind pursuings difference themes in photography. Dorothea best known for her works of capturing people's life in the countryside. The photography tries to emphasis on people's emotion during the Great depression time. Aaron works are about capturing the details of things in nature and daily life. Things that people hardly pays attention on. Dorothea Lange focuses on people's portraits and human's expression. Most of her pictures only capture the face, there are not much going on in the picture, only the natural expression of a person. This effect helps her to evoke emotion and represents sadness during the Great depression. Aaron Siskind focuses on zooming in to a subject with two dimensional surface that shows graphic pattern, shape and details. This effect of zooming helps his work to be non-representative and abstract. The tiny details can be seen with a different view point and be mo
