Museum Schloss Moyland by Taiji Matsue

            Taiji’s pictures have a special style. He makes images on manifold organic and artificial structures.  His photographs are adjusted to low contrast black -and-white. These photographs are made from a very high view. Therefore, his photographs have an almost analytical austerity and bear witness to the many different forms on the Earth’s crust. In his photographs, we cannot see any human being, or any living creatures. He makes images on flourishing city and tons of people.

            

            From some researches online, I find out that Taiji was born in Tokyo, Japan. He has been seeing the flourishing city for his whole life. He could see tons of people walking around him everyday. However, he avoids showing people in his images. In his images, there are only buildings and Earth’s crust. He is trying to give the buildings their own spirits. I feel like his work is rational. He stand up at a very high point (maybe a cliff), in order to give people a different way of looking at the city they live in. That makes his images unique.

From My Window by Andre Kertesz

            “From My Window” by Andre Kertesz is photographed very differently compare to “Museum Schloss Moyland” by Taiji Matsue. Andre is making images of some small glass objects in his room with different light conditions. He uses his window as background and makes these glass objects have different dramatic colors. 

               

               This is my favorite style. He is making some boring daily things interesting by using natural lights. We can see that the compositions of his images are not really important. We cannot see the whole parts of the objects in some of his images. He is really focusing on the light and the colors. He wants to show people a life based on a strong need to work through an increasing supply of ideas and feelings by means of photography.

Reservoir by Bas Princen

            Bas Princen is not majored in photography. He is an industrial designer at the Design Academy Eindhoven and as an architect at the Berlage institute in Rotterdam. Later on, he used his camera as a tool to research the various forms, outcome and possibilities of landscapes in transformation. He is good at showing people the edges of the buildings. 

             In his works, compositions take a really important role. His images are not adjusted to black-and-white on purpose, but they just give people a feeling that the colors are not important. In the other words, he wants people to pay attention on the compositions of these images. The compositions make the images more stereo. People can have a strong feeling about the distances. He uses long shutter speed and short aperture. Therefore, every detail in his images is clear.