Friday, September 23, 2011

Nick Brandt

I thought the photos that the photographer took were amazing! The amount of focus that photographer used and the simplicty on the pictures was just fantastic.

My favorite photo was when the little baby elephant was under his moms belly as they were walking, because it showed how nature works and how the mother is very protective of her kids.

a.     What kind of camera did he use? The camera he used was the Pentax6X7.
b.     What is his reason for taking the photos? The reason he took the pictures is because he loves animals and likes being around them.
c.     What is his hope by taking these types of photos? "His goals being to record a visually poetic last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are gone at the hands of man."
d.     Find something he has to say about Africa and post the quote on your blog. "I'm not interested in creating work that is simply documentary or filled with action and drama, which has been the norm in the photography of animals in the wild. What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being. In the state of Being before they are no longer are. Before, in the wild at least, they cease to exist. This world is under terrible threat, all of it caused by us. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera. The photos are my elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."

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