Urban Landscape Photography History

While many of his contemporaries were photographing the optimistic post war united states of the 50s the swiss born frank set out on a road trip to capture a much darker and more realistic view of the country culminating in arguably the most famous book in photographic history the americans he explored the country capturing subjects who were on the fringes of society.

Urban landscape photography history. The birth of landscape photography when understanding the history of landscape photography it is hard to trace the exact origin of landscape photography since the very first photograph that we have knowledge of was taken in an urban landscape during 1826 or 1827 by the french inventor nicéphore niépce. Most anyone who has traveled with a camera takes urban landscape photography i know i do. Into the 20 th century and the most famous landscape photographers have predominantly come from the usa. Indian photographer raghubir singh who worked in colour sought to reveal both the inner and outer life of his people through his street photography.

Perhaps this is due to the growing influence of american cultural produce the frontier myths and their dominant place in cinema that has helped promote the idea of the power and mystery of the american landscape. Urban landscape photography is one of the best ways to. Urban landscape photography can be done from within a city or town above it or from the outside looking in you have most likely created urban landscape photography whether you intended to or now. This made landscapes and cityscapes prime material for their exposures.

Such efforts had various labels including social landscape. Ansel adams was a deeply passionate environmentalist that photographed famous photos of locations such as yosemite national park. In the earliest days of landscape photography technical restraints meant that photographers were bound to working with static subjects due to long exposure times which rendered any movement blurry. Sea of japan in winter tohoku 2002 hiroji kubota.

Other social documentation in the postwar period used the medium to examine contemporary society from a distance. But unlike landscape photographers urban landscape photographers document human made interventions structures and environments. A very important photographer in the history of landscape photography especially nature photography is ansel adams. His landscape photography was predominantly black and white.

With categories such as urban landscape wildlife street seen abstract and travel there s plenty of photographic talent to be seen. The digital camera photographer of the year was announced at the photography show in march 2019. March 24 2017 march 24 2017 matt weber street photography cars buses old new york urban landscape urban landscape 1985 i have no recollection of where this picture was taken.