• A German photographer born in 1954.
• Studied at the Dusseldorf school of art from 1973-80.
• His work focuses on urban landscapes, such as industrial areas and deserted streets, so he can capture the conditions of society which are always changing through architecture and urban development.
• Many of his older work was shot in black and white but he eventually began to use colour as of recently.
• He has had many solo exhibitions in various places of the world.

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I think that this is a really successful picture which is taken by Thomas Struth of 2 buildings in a city due to the way that the sky is plain and white, which can be used to frame the buildings as it is able to highlight them because the building is a darker orange/brown colour with black accents which contrasts well against it. I also like in this picture how between the two buildings there is no gaps, like they are continuous, as it creates the effect where you aren’t sure where one might end or begin as it is unable to reveal how truly big both of these buildings are. This picture is also very deserted, there isn’t any humans to populate it which can help to create a story for the photo as it makes you wonder what day it is and what time of day it may be because it creates a very dystopian feel as both of the buildings look abandoned and forgotten to civilisation and there are also cracks in the road which shows how old this place may be because of how it is decaying over the years.

In my own work I would like to incorporate Thomas Struths use of the continuous building in my own photoshoots because I like the effect that it creates. I am going to do my photos at night instead of the day unlike Struths photos because I think that the dark contrast of the sky would work well against modern buildings which are usually white and professional looking due to the way they are built with slick square, uniformed shapes.

Sequence photography is a technique of shooting a series of images in where the subject is captured in successive motion.

Henry Mullins started working at 230 Regent Street in London in the 1840s and moved to Jersey in July 1848, setting up a studio known as the Royal Saloon, at 7 Royal Square. he started in partnership with a Mr Millward. after the first year he was working alone and he continued to work out of the same studio for another 26 years.

Tracy Moffatt

The nine images in Something More tell an ambiguous tale of a young woman’s longing for ‘something more’, a quest which brings dashed hopes and the loss of innocence. With its staged theatricality and storyboard framing, the series has been described by critic Ingrid Perez as ‘a collection of scenes from a film that was never made’. While the film may never have been made, we recognise its components from a shared cultural memory of B-grade cinema and pulp fiction, from which Moffatt has drawn this melodrama. The ‘scenes’ can be displayed in any order – in pairs, rows or as a grid – and so their storyline is not fixed, although we piece together the arc from naïve country girl to fallen woman abandoned on the roadside in whatever arrangement they take. Moffatt capitalises on the cinematic device of montage, mixing together continuous narrative, flashbacks, cutaways, close-ups and memory or dream sequences, to structure the series, and relies on our knowledge of these devices to make sense and meaning out of the assemblage.

was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist, most known for his black-and-white images taken in Yosemite National Park. He was born in  February 20, 1902, he later died in April 22, 1984. he became a founder of f/64 group this group advocated ‘pure’ photography, this type of photography with sharp focus and a full tonal range.

He is most famous for this image, On the chilly spring morning of April 10th, 1927, Ansel Adams set out through Yosemite’s LeConte Gully to capture an image of Half Dome, one of Yosemite National Park’s most iconic natural features.

This is a mood board to inspire me landscapes.

Lewis Baltz was visual artist and photographer he then became a important figure in the new topographic movement. born September 12, 1945,  died November 22, 2014, he was manly based in Europe from 1980 but did travel frequently. Lewis Baltz focused on architecture of tract housing, office parking lots, and industrial parks.

“But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centres, and gas stations” this is a quote form Lewis Baltz that explains why he didn’t fall into the traditional landscapes because he wanted to show the beauty that everyone can see and don’t have to travel miles.

I like this image because of the central symmetrical appeal of the circular in the centre of the image encased in a rectangle in a rectangular image.

The sharpness of this images highlights the beauty in the normal everyday. i think this image was taken to highlight the beauty in the mundane and show that there is beauty everywhere not just 1000 of miles away.

this photo shows a light car positioned on a very dark background this looks like a shoot but to the left of the frame the dark wall stops and the road continues showing that this isnt just a car on a black backgroubd perfectly postioned in a studio it has natural beauty which is what Lewis Baltz and the whole new topographical movement is about.