Landscape

Photography
By: Priya, Gabby, Dilpreet

What is Landscape
Photography?
Landscape

photography shows spaces

within the world
Typically captures the presence of nature
Can also focus on man-made features
Many landscape photographs show very
little human activity
Landscape photography commonly
involves natural features of land, sky and
waters

History of Landscape
Photography
Artists

have been
painting landscape
portraits since ancient
times
The Greeks and Romans
created wall paintings of
landscapes

Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastio

Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary

photographer and photo journalist.
He has traveled in over 100 countries for his photographic
projects.
What is special about his work is the fact that his photographs
uniquely capture nature from all around the world that is not
yet destroyed by the human race.
The photographs of Sebastio Salgado is usually in black and
white contrasts, light, shadows, rich details and amazing
views.
He also likes to express the fact that he wants to save our
planets dying wildlife and show people how beautiful it is
with his works.

Oil Wells Fire Fighter 1991

Ansel Adams
Ansel

Easton Adams was an American

photographer.
His black-and-white landscape
photographs of the American West,
especially Yosemite National Park, have
been widely reproduced on calendars,
posters, and books.
He lived: February 20,1902 - April
22,1984

The Tetons and the Snake

River 1942

Cathedral Peak and Lake

James Clancy
James

Clancy is a fine art photographer

and illustrator from North Cork, Ireland.
His love of photography grew from these
experiences. Since 2004 he has been
working solely in photography.
He worked in film making, music and
theatre, producing works which were
presented and screened at film festivals
and on national television.

Andreas Gursky
Andreas

is a German photographer and

professor at the Kunstakademie
Dsseldorf, Germany
He is known for his large format
architecture and landscape colour
photographs, often employing a high
point of view
He was born January 15, 1955 (age 61)

Paris Montparnasse
1993

Ben Messina
Ben

Messina is an Australian Landscape

and Nature photographer based the
Sunshine Coast Hinterland Australia.
His true passion has always been for
landscape, beauty waiting to be
captured.
He captured his first images on a Pentax
K1000, using Black and White film.

The Pinnacles

Edward Weston
being

one of the most influential

photographer of all time, Edward
Weston produced some of the worlds
most famous landscape photographs.
Over the course of his 40-year career
Weston photographed many different
subjects, including landscapes, still lifes,
nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even
whimsical parodies.

The Elegant Dune

William Henry Jackson

William

was an American painter,

veteran and geological survey
photographer
In 1869 he won a commission for the
union pacific to document the scenery
along the various railroad routes for
promotional purpses.

American West

Mario Giacomelli
Mario Giacomelli was an Italian photographer.
Giacomelli was a self-taught photographer.
At 13, he left high school, began working as a
typesetter and spent his weekends painting.
He wandered the streets and fields of post-war
Italy, inspired by the gritty Neo-Realist films of
Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini, and
influenced by the renewed Italian photographer
Giuseppe Cavalli, eventually developing a style
characterized by bold compositions and stark
contrasts.

Non specified name and date

John Sexton
Sexton

worked for Ansel Adams from

1979 to 1984 (when Adams died), first
as Technical and Photographic Assistant,
then as Technical Consultant.

Non specified name and date