Style of the Masters (Eve Arnold- Modern Environmental Portraits)

About This Group

The purpose of this group is to learn about the history of photography and expand each of our practical understandings and aesthetic and technical photographic repertoires: Given this, submissions should focus not only on subject matter, ie the “what” of the photo, but also on the “how”, “why”, and “when” of the photo.

Periodically we will change the name of the master photographer in the Group Title. Contributors should only submit photographs in the “style” of the master photographer nominated. “Style” in this sense is not only about the editing style and the compositional arrangement of items in the frame but may also cover the context, concept and subject matter that the nominated master photographer shoots.

Currently we feature the great photographer Eve Arnold, who died recently at the age of 99. Submissions should be in the style of “Eve Arnold Modern Environmental Portraits”. Eve was a pioneering photographer who battled with discrimination and is well known as the author of the candid portraits of the late Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of the “Misfits”.

Report from the New York Times
Wikipaedia- Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold Photos

As the group develops thematic competitions will be introduced along the same lines – focussing on styles rather than representing particular things.

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