NIGHTHAWKS – EDWARD HOPPER

When thinking about this a painting immediately popped into my head. ‘Nighthawks’ by Edward Hopper. Nighthawks is a 1942 oil painting by Edward Hopper which portrays three strangers sitting in a desolate diner late at night. The painting to me looks like a photograph someone took from outside of a diner of a bunch of strangers because it looked visually appealing. Despite the fact that barely any of the frame is filled there is enough within the frame to tell a full story.

 

 

RICHARD AVEDON 

Continuing with my research I stumbled upon an American photographer called ‘Richard Avedon’. He does a lot of portrait photography and makes every photo look pure, all of this photos are in black and white and that interested me because I wanted all of my photographs to be pure and in the moment as opposed to rehearsed and staged.

Two portraits of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tilda Swinton.