- Both could be described as landscape pictures. What kinds of landscapes do they describe?
- The first image is of crashing waves and a pier in the background, the second is of a seaside that seems to have different parts cut out and stuck in different areas.
- What similarities do you notice about these two pictures?
- They’re both of the sea
- What differences do you notice?
- The second image is more of a collage of a couple images cut up whilst the first image is 2 images taken at different exposures that have been stuck together.
- What words/phrases best describe each of these landscapes?
- 1st: dramatic, expressive, monochrome. 2nd: negatives, collage, constructed.
- In which of these landscapes would you prefer to live?
- The first one
Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884) is known as the most crucial French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical alterations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the exceptional imagination he brought to picture making.
