PLATT
FIELDS PEOPLE
One of the
most interesting works around portrait that I know is “In the American west” of
Richard Avedon. Bridging the gap, I have tried something similar, just showing
people in a place and a moment of their lives.
I
put this link to his work http://www.richardavedon.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=3&p=7&a=0&at=0
I also like
very much the frontal portraits of August Sander, the German photographer. He
has many different types of portraits during all his life, but the ones who
inspired me have been those who show the people doing his jobs, or expressing
what they do in their lives. The issue is not the same in my project
but the way to treat the person photographed, from the front.
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LONDON
WALK
For
the work around London I have been inspired by the work of one of my friends
here in Cantabria (Spain), Maxi del Campo. He made a really good work in New
York many years ago (before the 9/11), and I have tried to do something similar
when going around London. Apart from this there are plenty of examples you can
see in both books or in the internet, where you can find different towns “portrayed”
by many photographers.
As you can see in his flickr, he also has other different towns, in a nice way, in my opinion.
There
is also a Catalan photographer that worked last century in Barcelona, called
Francesc Catalá I Roca, that has extraordinary photos of Barcelona around the
fifties, I love his work.
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