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1. Juergon Teller is a german artist and a fine-art fashion photographer. He is known for his overexposed style and tendency to work in color, and often includes himself in the photographs. He has shot campaigns with Marc Jacobs since 1998, and has photographed many well known artists, including Kanye West. His photos hint at sexuality, utilizing the naked human body or scarcely clothed body, almost never capturing his subjects in the center of his prints. They have a haphazard "day-in-the-life" feel, each photo narrating a seemingly mundane human moment.
Though I appreciate his work for it's unique representation of the human experience, specifically in this book, I find it a little crude in a boring sense. Though crude can enhance work in a certain way, I felt, in Teller's work, "crude" had little impact in an artful sense. There is certainly an audience for the naked and the mundane, and the suffering his photos often convey is certainly entrancing, but I personally would shy away from the casualness of his work, no matter what he was attempting to imply.


2. Lynne Cohen was a photographer from Wisconsin that grew up to teach workshops in print making at multiple institutions. She is known for her domestic photographs often empty of any human presence. Her work, to me, suggests still moments that nobody typically would pay attention to or notice- empty rooms and scenes that give off the feeling that someone was just here, a moment ago, but you've missed them. She uses black and white which only enhances the empty feeling her work invokes. Whether an office space, a play set or a hairdressers, one feels the impact of a space without human presence through Cohen's work.
She photographed with an 8X10" view camera which enabled her to make large prints of great spaces. Her photographs, in my opinion, always suggest a purposeful story. This type my favorite type of picture- that one that leaves you wondering exactly what went on in this space, and to whom. I appreciate her utilization of lack of color. It suggests a haunted and barren feel, one that would perhaps be lost with vibrancy.
Cohen died in 2014, but her work can still be found published in various catalogs and in libraries across the country.

3. Andrew Savulich is self-taught photographer from Pennsylvania who made his way to New York Daily News after years of working freelance, as a landscape architect, a construction worker and a cabdriver. His photographs are my favorite out of the three, as they capture real-life moments in New York City. He captures violence, disaster, death and always in a manor of dry-irony, one that leaves you curious for an explanation, for another picture. His photos are in black and white, rarely with subjects centrally framed but always with a natural symmetry about the picture. He seems to have a knack for capturing a photo in the exact right moment, during the action or immediately after, each one as powerful as the last. His photos are personal, often almost invasive, of criminals, the deceased, the crazy and the onlookers. He catches humanity in it's most honest moments, a difficult task when photos are planned and staged. He gets to the heart of New York in it's every day life, rarely boring, always somewhat heartbreaking, using ISO speeds s the moment presents itself- blurred when the photo suggests business and a hurried moment, still when capturing emotion and immediacy. Should I ever be a news photographer, I imagine I will look often to Savulich's work.