MFAEDA 711 – Influences

How exactly does someone go from future fighter pilot to aspiring aeronautical engineer to professional political scientist and end-up studying experimental and documentary arts? Primary Influences Physicists Richard Feynman Photographers Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor Edward Weston Gary Monroe Imogen Cunningham Joel Sternfeld Paul Shambroom Susan Meiselas Zalmai Culinary creatives Alton Brown Mixed-media artists Jenny…


How exactly does someone go from future fighter pilot to aspiring aeronautical engineer to professional political scientist and end-up studying experimental and documentary arts?

Primary Influences


Physicists

Photographers

Culinary creatives

Mixed-media artists

Audio Odysseys

Filmmakers and Films

Cautionary tales

Secondary Influences


Poets

John Donne (1572–1631) – Elegy XIX: To his mistress upon going to bed

Photographers

Yousuf Karsh
Platon Antoniou
Patrick Demarchelier
Steve McCurry
Philippe Halsman
Nan Goldin
Rankin
Larry Sultan

Filmmakers and Films

Laura Poitras
Apocalypse Now (1979) – dir., Francis Ford Coppola
Amadeus (1984) – dir., Milos Forman

Audio Odysseys

Serial
Louis Jordan
Sam Cooke
George Gershwin


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