Mengjun Duan style

William Eggleston, an American photographer who was born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee. Eggleston is extremely intelligent in his field especially in color photography. He was the first artist to take dye transfer printing out of advertising and use it to create art. He is also credited with taking the so called "snapshot aesthetic" usually associated with family photos and amateur photographers and turning it into a crafted picture imitating life. Although he began his career making black-and-white images, he soon abandoned them to experiment with color technology to record experiences in more sensual and accurate terms. His encounter with Andy Warhol exposed him to forms of color photography and advertisement, He was the pioneer of color photography. William Eggleston used color photographs to describe the cultural transformations in Tennessee and the rural South. He depicts these changes in scenes of everyday life, for instance, portraits of family and friends, as well as gasoline stations, cars, and shop interiors.  Eggleston's use of the anecdotal character of mundane life to describe a particular place and time by focusing either on a particular detail, such as an object, or facial expression, or by taking in a whole scene.

Alec Soth was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photography has a cinematic feel with elements of personality that hint at a story behind the image. Working in a photographic tradition of road photography established by such figure as William Eggleston. Alec Soth captures stunning large-scale color images often using a 8x10 field camera, with an eye toward finding overlooked beauty in the banal. He is a hunter and gatherer. His casual curiosity about people, places, or topics penchant for research, and openness to serendipity in seeking out subjects have all become hallmarks of his working process. His images offer insight into broader sociologies while forming an unexpected portrait of the country. His curiosity makes his work unique in that he discovered this style on his own by randomly wandering around finding things, instead of reading about it. Because of this, his creativity came directly from him, instead of from the inspiration by the photographers before him

Ari Marcopoulos is an Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, living and working in New York and California. He was Schooled by Andy Warhol and Irving Penn^. As a photographer, film artist and adventurist, He dedicated his work into the intimate lives of people living on the edge. He began shooting street culture in '80s-era New York, which included the downtown art scene, hip-hop figures, and graffiti artists. He quickly proved his ability to assimilate into a given community and gained access to the subcultures of skateboarding and extreme snowboarding. Marcopoulos's simple, straight-forward images reveal an engagement and connection with the intimate lives of people living on the ragged edges of society. His later images of his young sons in Northern California emphasize his own role as an equal performer in the environments.