Rut - Blees Luxembourg 

Rut Blees Luxembourg is a photographer who primarily works at night to capture her photographs. These two photographs were taken from an East London Block of flats off of City Road. Image one was taken from the opposite flat on the sixteenth floor to create the view as if we are standing on the balcony watching the opposite block. The  view we see in the image give us an impression that there was not a lot of high rise buildings yet in London. The visual choices Luxembourg has applied to her work are the use of Long exposure photography particularly a ten minute exposure for this image. She used a large format camera and only Ambient lighting. The focal point is obviously the main block due to it being in complete focus where as the background starts to lose its focus as it drops to the background. The grid effect created on this image was broken from the use of the lights in the flats being turned on when people returned home from work. The use of the lights gives us an insight into the lives of the people living there the stronger the light the longer the people have been home. 

This image is of various blocks of flats found in the East - end of London. In this image Luxembourg is showing the viewer the style of housing found in the suburbia of London and how uninviting and uncharacteristic it is. She used the same style of photography and visual strategies found in image one. I especially am fond of image two  gives us a sense of scale in which blocks of housing is created in London you don't get the idea of a friendly neighbourhood but a dark environment 

Vera Lutter 

Vera Lutter was commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Photography to turn offices into Camera Obscures and capture down town Chicago. Lutter as captured this photographs using a camera Obscures to create her photography where you use a aperture which passes through to the small dark chamber and the light is reflected onto the photographic paper to recreate the scene. Due to her small aperture the exposures are normally long a few hours or a day depending on the weather conditions of that day. This photographs are unique and changes the way we see this view due to everything being in opposition and objects in motion do not appear. 

 

Lutter has again used the Camera Obscure to create her photography she has used the same visual strategies as image one.  It gives the look of trail light photography the way the light trails across the streets. This city scape shows a lot of nature which makes the foreground of the photograph seem very flat which compositional wise works well for this image the flat space leading onto the sky scrappers of the city.