In the News...

Attached is an article I found in pdonline.com. Although it isn't happy news, I felt that it was interesting because this man lived a full life and has experienced all the different phases of photography up to the present age of photography. He has been a part of the history of what we learned in class in the early 1900's.

Photographer and Filmmaker Tom Hollyman Dies at 89

Photographer and filmmaker Tom Hollyman, a former president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, died November 14 in Austin, Texas.

He was 89 and died after battling COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), according to his daughter, photographerStephenie Hollyman.

Trained as a photojournalist, Hollyman specialized in travel photography for many years, shooting for Holiday and Town and Country magazines. He also served as the director of photography for the 1963 movie version of Lord of the Flies.

Thomas Benton Hollyman was born in Denver in 1919. He graduated from Central Missouri State University in 1940 and became one of the first students to earn a Master’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri. From there, he joined the Chicago Bureau of Acme Newspictures, and later became a staff photographer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

In World War II Hollyman served in the Air Force and was stationed in the Pentagon working on photo intelligence.

After the war, Hollyman joined Holiday Magazine as a staff photographer, working under photo editor Frank Zachery. It was there he met his first wife, fellow travel photographerJean Burnes. Later, working with advertising executive David Ogilvy, Hollyman shot campaigns for Mercedes, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, P & O Orient Steamship company and other accounts.

In the 1960s, Hollyman moved into television, producing educational films, a travel documentary and commercials. In 1963, British director Peter Brook tapped him as director of photography for the movie adaptation of Lord of the Flies, which was produced in Puerto Rico, where Hollyman had moved in 1957.

Hollyman was president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (now called the American Society of Media Photographers) from 1969 to 1971 and later served on the ASMP President’s Advisory Council and Advisory Board.

He continued shooting photos through the 1990s, and moved to Austin, Texas in 2006.

He is survived by his son, Burnes St. Patrick Hollyman, his daughter Stephenie, and three grandchildren.

A memorial service is planned for 2 p.m. November 30 at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Ave., New York, N.Y.

Contemporary Photojournalism

Early 20th Century Fine Art Photography/F64

I found this contemporary photograph by a Dallas, Texas photographer - David Kozlowski. This photo is titled "Butte Sedona Oak Creek Canyon Landscape". When I came across it, it reminded me of Ansel Adams. David blends multiple exposures, color tones and saturation. This picture shows sharpness (depth of field) exactly the style of the P64 photographers, the opposite of pictorialism. Only difference is this photograph was most likely taken by a digital SLR, but shows the art of photography and how history influences contemporary work today.

Photography and Art.

I believe this is a really interesting topic. I can understand all the different views when it comes to photography and it being fine art. Photography has definitely changed since the 1920's due to digital. Digital allows almost anyone to try and become a photographer. Now many do not have an eye for it and it shows in their work but almost anyone can attempt becoming a photographer with digital cameras and editing techniques making it so much easier to learn vs how things were done in the early 1900's. Digital offers exceptional image quality and creative flexibility. I agree with Gopnik where he states are there new ways on making a photo fancy, the way they were done with Adams or Avedon. We do tend to see more repetition of photography work today vs. the 1800 and 1900's. Photography today is an equal opportunity art form, I see so many images, a wide variety of images that are in exhibits and used for magazines and commercial work almost as if its so easy to accomplish. Below I chose this image as a fine art image. It only differs from the early 1900's with it being color and having a high resolution. Like the early 1900's it still has that peaceful landscape scene, that many photographers captured back then that was considered a form of art.

Exploration/Landscape

This photo won an award as the habitat winner with the British Wildlife Photography Awards. The photographer is Ben Hall and the title of the photograph is "Fallow buck at dawn".

Capturing this moment in the dawn with the deer is just amazing. There is just a little light shining down with an opening gap from the trees that lead your eyes right down to the deer. This shows what a peaceful environment can be like in the morning when exploring a habitat. It shows the beauty of nature in the woods. The golden colors give this image a warm feel and to me that is what makes it innovative. We often see black and white, and colors. The landscaping around the subject gives the image a fullness. This image was well deserved for an award .

19th Century Still Life Photo

I found a photo that was taken by Adolphe Giraudon in 1890. A photo of a mirror with the reflection of his camera. I find this picture beautiful. I like the art design around the mirror. With the photographers eye, I see a frame within a frame. The mirror being the frame for the camera. I would say because of the reflection, this photograph has two subjects, the mirror and the camera. Brilliant idea.