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Backyard photography

2021-06-05

Many of these are from Alec Soths video on backyard photographs.

Jem Southam, Landscape Stories

Book.

Introductory essay by Andy Grundberg.

To photograph is to garden, to organize the natural world around a set of a priori principles (Andy Grundberg).

Applies repetition throughout work. Uses this methodology to capture his kitchen window view of his garden, creating a short sequence within the book.


Dag Alveng⁣, Summer Light, 2001

Book.

Study of light. Black white images printed high key. Interesting sequence: walking around the house.

https://www.alveng.com/summer-light


Terri Weifenbach, Des Oiseaux, 2019

Book.

Photographs taken in her garden. Mostly birds in flight. Saturated, shallow depth of field, mostly images of birds in flight.


Josef Sudek⁣, The Window of my Studio

Book.

Photographs spanning from world war two to the 1950's. Contact prints. Some toned, some bordered. Subjects: a tree outside a window and an urban scene. Sudek sometimes used the window glass.


Robert Adams,⁣ Standing Still, 2021

Book.

Images of Adams' backyard through seasons. Typical of Adams' style, Black white, straight images but of suburbia.