Robert Ketchum received his Masters of Fine Arts from the California Institute of Fine Arts in 1974 and then began working on his landscape photography. Today, he is a very well known photographer-environmentalist who has been shaping the way people view our natural landscape for more than 30 years. In his career, he has received the Master Series distinction from American Photo. Besides Ketchum, only four other photographs have received that award since the magazine began publishing. I personally found Robert's photographs to be absolutely breath taking and there isn't a single picture that I've seen that I haven't loved. Unlike other photographs, he goes around taking photographs of the type of nature we don't typically see everyday. For example, it's not everyday we see a giant snow cap mountain top up close with all it's natural beauty. He has a remarkable way of making every bit of land look beautiful as if he's trying to preserve the land and all it's natural beauty. When trying to pick out my favorite image of his, I almost had to stop looking at pictures all together because the more I looked, the more I loved!! Even though it was very tough to decide, I feel the best image of his is this image of the trailer and the dog. It's so simple, yet who would image taking a picture of that? Plus, the monochromatic tone of it sets an extra calming mood for it which is really nice.
Richard Misrach
Misrach is an American photographer who is best known for his on going series, Desert Cantos, along with some of his other work including, Cancer Alley. He was also one of the very few photographers who was very influential during the renaissance of color photography and larger displays of images. Richard has such an interesting way of photographing the desert that I enjoyed a lot. With his photographs he isn't just showing the scenery of a place, but he is showing what man is doing to that place. With his images he is showing all the different types of ways man leaves marks on the desert and other parts of the earth. He also manages to capture the beauty of how mother nature leaves her own mark on the earth after a disaster has struck. The image that stuck out to me the most was this one below. I feel like this was something Misrach probably just walked up to in the desert, but the way he positioned it in the camera really captures it's beauty. The tire marks in the sand make a very appealing pattern which then leads your eye to the sand mound in the background. Only a true professional could have seen tire marks in the sand and turned it into a photograph.
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