Contemporary Photography Project

Dana Fritz

Dana Fritz has a BFA from Kansas City Art Instititute and a MFA from Arizona State University. She has many awards including a Society for Photographic Education Imagemaker Award, and Arizona Commision on the Arts Fellowship, and Juror's awards in national exhibitations. Fritz's photographs have been displayed both nationally and internationally.

Bill Curtsinger

Bill Curtsinger was born in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania January 23, 1946. He attended Northern Arizona University. He went into the United States Military and served in the elite Navy Photo Unit as well as the Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group during the Vietnam War. Being a self-taught photography he went on to presue his passion by taking photos for his career. His photos made multiple covers and hundreds of stories in the National Geographic Magazine and recieved international attention for his photos. Curtsinger said that one of his biggest inspirations was Robinson Jeffers' poem The Answer.

Compare & Contrast

Dana Fritz

Compositional-

  • Rule of Thirds

  • Low Horizon


Subject- Landscape



Theme- One theme shown through all of her photos is how dramatic nature can be.



Bill Curtsinger

Compositional-

  • Centered

  • Selective Focus

  • High Horizon

  • Close Distance

Subject - The seal pup



Theme- One theme that Bill Curtsinger has in his photos is to show how unique the Antarctic and marine biospheres are.



Simularities

The only simularities I could find between these two pictures is the high-key lighting and they are both pictures of nature.

Critiques

Dana Fritz

What do you like about this photographer's work? Why?

I really like Dana Fritz’s Terraria Gigantica collection because it shows the uniqueness of artificial environments and how she can take pictures with great compositional value using many of the compositional techniques.



What do you not like? Is there anything that makes you uncomfortable? Why?

I do dislike a couple of Fritz’s pictures because some of them seem like she didn’t line the photo up well enough or the subject is not very interesting.



Are there any connections that the photos bring up in your own life?

Dana Fritz photographs many of the landscapes that I like: rocky coastline, dense foliage, desert landscapes, and unique rock formations.



Bill Curtsinger

What do you like about this photographer's work? Why?

I like Bill Curtsinger’s photos because they all have angles and situations that are not normally what we see. I also like that he mainly photographs nature and animals.



What do you not like? Is there anything that makes you uncomfortable? Why?

One thing that I don’t like about Bill Curtsinger’s work is how there is barely ever any variation in what he photographs throughout his entire career.



Are there any connections that the photos bring up in your own life?

One connection that I have with Bill Curtsinger’s work is how there are a lot of cold, Antarctic landscapes and personally I really like snow and the idea of a cold, snowy wasteland.



My Photos

My photo relates to Dana Fritz's because it has the same subject: a rocky coastline. The pictures also share high key lighting.

My photo relates to Bill Curtsinger's photo because it has the same theme: a very cute animal. Our photos also share being a close distance image with high key lighting.