Philip Lorca Dicorcia

How amazing is fact that sometimes we do not know someone name but we recognize his art work and when we are looking for a specific artist suddenly one of the pics reminds us something. We can say that we have seen it somewhere before. It seems to be prdinary photograph but it is not. What would half-naked man be doing in front of the supermarket. Why someone took a picture of him? Was is an accident or the scene was carefully set up?
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His photographs would then give a sense of heightened drama to the passers-by accidental poses, unintended movements and insignificant facial expressions. Even if sometimes the subject appears to be completely detached to the world around him, diCorcia has often used the city of the subject's name as the title of the photo, placing the passers-by back into the city's anonymity.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/cruelandtender/dicorcia.htm
http://www.artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles1097/PdiCorciaA.html

Daniel Boud

Daniel Boud...
here is part of an interview with him...
I love taking pictures. I’ve been doing it since i was a kid but it’s not something i took seriously until i bought my first digital camera. That was just a simple Canon Ixus V, but i used it almost every day, snapping ordinary things in my life.
I love seeing live music so would take my camera along and shoot pictures from the crowd.
I upgraded to a Canon 350D in March 2005 on a trip to Austin for SXSW. I wangled myself a media pass and shot dozens of gigs. SPIN and Rolling Stone magazine found some of my SXSW photos online and asked to publish them.
I’ve since been published again in SPIN and Rolling Stone plus other press including NME, Vanity Fair, The Sydney Morning Herald, Dazed and Confused, Nylon and dozens more. I used to work a lot for Drum Media and Mess and Noise.
I sometimes syndicate my photos through Retna.
I’ve got a BA (Media and Communication) from UNSW but no formal training in photography besides a short course in lighting from ACP.
My photography gear
The most common question i get asked is “what camera do you use?” I don’t think it matters a great deal, but if you’re curious, this is what i use.
* Canon 5D
* Canon 5D Mark II
* Tamron 14mm f2.8
* Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II
* Canon 50mm f1.4
* Canon 85mm f1.8
* Canon 70-200 f2.8 IS
* Canon Speedlite 580ex
* Canon Speedlite 580ex II
* Crumpler 6 Million Dollar Home
* Crumpler Cork and Fork
Conparing my equipment to his I could say that I should be able to take picture of the same quality but there is something that cannot be seen. Hes got some extraordinary skills ability to capture breathtaking moments.

http://www.boudist.com/
http://www.musicphotographer.co.uk/
http://www.stevecarter.com/

Joana And Aurele In Bed

For the last few weeks my main focus was on contemporary art and intimate life and Nan Goldin became my main inspiration. Trying to capture amateur-like style but done by a professional was something very difficult. There is very thin line between these two sides and keeping balance was something what can prove that someone is an artist.
Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in an upper-middle-class Jewish family in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington. After attending the nearby Lexington High School, she enrolled at the Satya Community School in Lincoln, where a teacher introduced her to the camera in 1968; Goldin was then fifteen years old. Her first solo show, held in Boston in 1973, was based on her photographic journeys among the city's gay and transsexual communities, to which she had been introduced by her friend David Armstrong. Goldin graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 1977/1978, where she had worked mostly with Cibachrome prints.

http://www.art-directory.info/photography/nan-goldin-1953/index.shtml
http://photography.suite101.com/article.cfm/nan-goldins-photography