Gustave Le Gray

Le Gray was born in 1820, originally working on painting, until he took up photography in 1847. He had a smart ability to take well made landscape images, with his writing, teaching and overall photography skills becoming very influential.

One of his most famous photograph taken was called “The Great Wave”. What’s good about this image is his use of contrast with black and white, even more the ability to take an image like this during his period shows great skill. The use of a horizon, crashing dramatic waves, with a still pier, and a contrast of light in the clouds create the picture.

His images create a certain aesthetic, and during this period and even now these landscape images show perfect alignment for the camera, and placing in what he wants to include into the image. It feels like its giving off a radiant effect.

Dafna Talmor

Dafna talmor is a great modern day photographer/artist who uses a very unique technique that works well for her landscape end results.

What she does is take multiple landscape images around the same area, or sometimes even in completely different areas. Cuts them out, and sticks them back together to create her own synthetic type of landscape image. Kind of reminds me of Pablo Picasso.

Comparison

What I like about the both of these photographers is that they almost use the same technique of manipulation. As Gustave was during the 1840’s onwards, his way of manipulation towards the image was through the placing of the camera specifically facing the sun, whilst including other aspects in his imagery. Compared the Dafna, she uses the same technique of manipulation but almost in a newer modern aspect, by physically cutting out multiple landscape images and placing it into one landscape image like a puzzle.

What is completely different between the two is that Gustave only uses one image to represent his landscape, whereas Dafna uses multiple, as if you have to see it from more of a mental point of view rather than a physical imagery point of view.