Still Image: 3 Artists Research

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Bettina von Zwehl is a photographer that is known for her subtle and distinctive photographic portraits. Bettina von Zwehl  was born in Munich on 1971. Bettina von Zwehl seeks out different ways of exploring photography. Examples of her work are 'Made up Love song' 2011 (image 1)  and 'Ruby’s room' 2013 (image 2).


One of her works that interested me is the dark room works, where Bettina von Zwehl takes pictures of an individual in a dark room with their arms crossed and sitting in the same position listening to music for 10 minutes (image 3). She does this in order to capture the individuals feelings at the time. I find this to be very interesting as you can capture emotion properly through the use of different types of music.

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Artist 2:

August Sander was born in 17 November 1876  and died on 20 April 1964. He was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander is the creator of the ‘Face of our Time’ which was published in 1929. Examples of Sanders works is ‘Young Farmers’ 1914 (image 1) and ‘Pastrycook’ 1928. (image2).

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Mette Tronvoll is born in 1965. Mette Tronvoll is an artist that states he is not searching for interesting-looking people, but interesting meetings with people. Tronvoll enjoys spending time with friends and strangers, if there are any situations that occur, it is a special interest to Tronvoll as it gives a certain tension in his photographs. Examples of his works are 'Rena 006' 2006 (image 1), where he takes photos of individuals behind a mask. Another example is 'Mongolia' 2004 (image 2), which is a series of portraits of Mongolian nomads and their homes.

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