Deconstructing Environmental Photographers, The Contemporary Urban Environment

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Rut Blees: Picture 1 and 2 are pictures of buildings taken as we see them everyday. Blees used long exposure to get these images, sometimes 10 minutes long.
For picture 1 Blees used an ambient light and went to an opposite building on the 16th floor to be in level with the building shown in the picture. She explains that in Germany, her home country there are many buildings like so, but that they are rare in places like London. Out of the three images I chose this is the most frontal picture. The rectangular block almost looks sculpturesque, the random lighting of people living there add to the picture.
Picture 2 is very similar, expept it is taken from bellow, looking up at the building. again the random lighting seems to work with the rest of the picture. The branch on the top of the photograph reminds me of Steichen and Alvin Langdon Coburn's pictures of the Flatiron, it makes it look more artistic that picture 1 which looks slightly more documentary.
Picture 3 is very different from the previous two pictures. Its a close up of part of a building. Blees photographed public spaces, especially areas with several layers of different history apparent, like in this picture, the modern looking building with its straight rectangular angles in contrast of the old looking advertisement shown underneath it.

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Richard Wentworth: Richard Wentworth is originally a sculptor, but he did a series of photographs called Making do and Getting by, in this series he took pictures of random object randomly placed around in very peculiar ways. All the pictures are very similar, they are taken in a documentary style. Picture 1 shows a park-meter with a stuffed paper inside the coin slot saying: lost my $, tues 3:30. Picture 2 shows us a cork holing a door open by having been balanced on the pavement. Finally Picture 3 shows an empty bottle cleverly stuck between two trees. Wentworth's pictures show more absurdly place items. He shows us the sculptures of everyday life, and reminds us that art really is all around.

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Vera Lutter: Vera Lutter Uses extremely long exposures they can go up to weeks. she directly exposes onto the paper through a very small lens.

Picture 1 is a construction worksite you can see the different places where the cranes moved and stopped for a period of time. Picture 2 shows a series of boats on a river the reflection of the boats are extremely blurry from the constant movement of the water but strangely enough the boat themselves are apparently in focus. Picture 3 I a simple building seen from the same level, it must be the clearest picture of all as it didn't move, but it actually looks blurry. Vera looks at the idea of time and movement, two very close subject as time is ever moving and so are we. Her long exposures ,makes her lose all trace of human beings and only capture what has been still for a certain amount of time. Normally long exposures would mean a ghostly feeling to the picture, but the lack of human presence in Vera's pictures takes that eerie feeling away and leaves a rather interesting outcome.