What is Arnold Newman's famous photography?

Arnold Newman (1918 ~), an American photographer, was born in new york. Newman began to learn photography when he was a boy scout. His first teacher, Ben Ross, is a famous professional photographer in new york. At the same time, Newman also likes art. He studied painting at the University of Miami.

1938 The Great Depression prevented Newman from realizing his dream of becoming a painter and turned to photography. His artistic talent in painting has been fully used and expressed in portrait photography. 194 1 year, Newman began to take portraits of painters, writers, composers, dancers and other celebrities, which made him gain a high reputation and become a world-famous portrait photographer.

(a) environmental portraits

Newman's portrait photography is good at closely combining the characters with their surroundings, so that the background or environment is organically integrated with the subject, which becomes the best explanation of the characters' personality. This new generation portrait is called "environmental portrait" and has been highly praised.

In order to express the character's character through the environment, Newman often uses posing techniques and disapproves of improvisation. He said:

The carefully selected portraits are only accidental images in an instant. Generally speaking, they lack typicality, so they can't last long.

So Newman manipulated his subjects like a director until he got a natural and stable expression. When choosing the surrounding scenery related to characters, Newman always chooses carefully to find the most typical foil. The characters in his works always appear in the picture in the working environment they are engaged in: alfred krupp, an arms dealer, has his back to the huge factory workshop; Georgia Okefei, a painter, stands in front of her favorite painting theme-sheep's head skull: Robert Moses, an urban architect, holds a blueprint in his hand, and behind him is a tall building in new york. ...

Newman's portrait photos for the painter Monterian can best reflect the creative characteristics of environmental portraits. Monterian is one of the founders of abstract painting school. He advocates using geometric shapes to express "formal beauty". His works are mostly composed of straight lines and rectangles, and he opposes using curves. Newman put mondriaan's hand on an easel with two rectangular wallpapers in the background. In this way, mondriaan seems to be embedded in mysterious and strict geometric figures, which reminds people of the style of the painter's own works. When talking about his shooting intention, Newman said that using serious straight lines and geometric figures to deal with the picture is to show the style of Monterian and his works, and to deal with him the way he deals with you.

(2) Newman's famous works

Newman's famous work is a portrait he took for composer Stravinsky. In the photo, a grand piano occupies four fifths of the picture, and the composer is in a corner. There is a subtle sense of melody between the characters and the piano. At the same time, the big triangle formed by the piano cover and the column echoes the small triangle formed by the composer's meditation, just like the variation of the main theme in music on different instruments with different timbres.

This photo was taken in 1946, when Newman was just a budding young man in American photography. About the idea of this photo, Newman once recalled:

I have a special interest in the different shapes of various musical instruments, and I was also trying to photograph the shapes of these instruments. I will take this as a starting point.

Grand piano's lines are very beautiful and powerful, which is also given to me by Stravinsky's music. I immediately thought of putting this composer with the piano.

In order to set off the composer and the piano, Newman put the spotlight on the white wall and used the reflected light for illumination. Because the reflected light is soft, it will not produce shadows. At the same time, the contrast between the white wall and the piano is similar to the composer's strong, rough and rigid style.

In the process of shooting, Newman constantly changed the position and posture of rhyme, and * * * took 26 negatives. After careful screening, Newman selected one and edited it in post-production, and finally got this masterpiece.

After the publication of this work, it was very popular, Newman became famous in one fell swoop, and Stravinsky also became famous in one fell swoop. Shortly before the composer's death, when Newman visited him, he embraced Newman excitedly and said enthusiastically:

Oh! Newman, you made me famous all over the world.