Gursky is a son of a German commercial photographer, along with a photographer himself that's been around since before the 90's. In his photographs, Gursky has a great handle on how he uses color. Everything is balanced and mixes well together. If he was doing this project with us he wouldn't have had a problem. He has also been known to have a high point of view in a majority of his photographs. Typically, a view you wouldn't think to look at, let alone photograph, making his points of view very interesting. To me it seems as if Gursky has the ability to take a picture of something ordinary and turn it into something extraordinary. For example, he has lots of pictures of architecture that seem to be very simple, yet, it isn't nearly as easy to pull off as he makes it. I can't just go off an take a picture of apartment porches and make it look as photogenic as he did. However, at the same time seeing images that have the same kind of feel to it over and over to it get kind of boring after awhile. Don't get me wrong, I do like his work, but I think I can only handle a little of it before I get bored. Out of the pictures I saw of Gursky's, this image of the hotel has to be my favorite. The way you can look down you can see the carpet on the floors and when you look up you can see the ceilings, really catches my eye.
Muhammed Muheisen
Muhammed Muheisen is a Pakistani photographer that is known for taking pictures of other Pakistan people where some of his most famous pictures come from the recent war going on in Iraq. Even though he isn't that well known of a photographer and hasn't been around too long, he's been given lots of awards for his images including photo of the year in 2007. What I noticed in Muheisen's photographs was he has the ability to create designs even in war images where you wouldn't expect to find designs. It's not like he can stage half of the stuff he sees. Plus, the things and people he is photographing are so intense and violent, yet he seems to make it all appealing to the eye. Muheisen even seems to be able to take pictures of people dying with their dignity, instead of just shoving a camera in their face for their last few moments. His use of colors in his pictures I feel are either very good in some, or just okay. The ones that work very well together seem to have the same color scheme and blend very well. My favorite photograph of Muheisen's was this one with the little boy and the toy guns. It's just ironic that the guns are pointed at the little boy as he's wearing a shirt that says America and colors of the wall, along with the tone of the wall, all the match.
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