Both could be described as landscape pictures. What kinds of landscapes do they describe?

Both photographs are seascapes. However, the artists have chosen to develop their images in different ways; Gustave Le Gray’s being more simplistic, and Dafna Talmor’s being more abstract.

What similarities do you notice about these two pictures?

Both photographs are seascapes.

What differences do you notice?

Although both photographers have chosen to photograph seascapes, they have edited them in different ways in order to produce these final images. Gustave Le Gray printed 2 negatives on a single sheet of paper: one exposed for the sea, the other for the sky, and sometimes made on separate occasions or in different locations. Whereas Dafna Talmor first shot the photographs on medium format film. She then sliced them to pieces. She could combine places thousands of miles apart on the same surface and construct her own imaginary land. The images are the product of laborious and painstaking collaging techniques that Talmor executes herself and then enlarges the newly created negative in the darkroom.

What words/phrases best describe each of these landscapes?

Dramatic, abstract, mysterious, gloomy, dark

In which of these landscapes would you prefer to live? 

Gustave Le Gray’s ‘The Great Wave’ as although the image has been altered like Dafna Talmor’s photograph, you can still see the whole structure. Dafna Talmor’s photograph is more mysterious and unknown which makes it less appealing to want to live in.