Quan! Visual Language 2: 3 Artists

Nacho Lopez (1923-1986)

Nacho Lopez was a famous mexican photojournalist. Lopez's photography focused on social and political issues of Mexico city. His photos represented the everyday life of the Mexican people. He studied at the Institute de Artes y Ciencias Cinematograficas with Manuel Alvarez Bravo. He published many of his works in magazines such as Manana, Hoy, Siempre, and Unomasuno. Later on in his life, he also became a news cameraman and made documentary films. Lopez also started photo essays, one of which involves a man carrying a naked mannequin of a woman around Mexico city.

Man and Police in Police...
Lopez, Nacho
1954

"Pachuco" or Gigolo in...
Lopez, Nacho
1954

Patricia Masse. "López, Nacho." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 6 Feb. 2009 .
Women in Supermarket,...
Lopez, Nacho
c.1955

Raphael Soyer

Raphael Soyer was a painter who focused on social realism. Soyer studied painting in New York at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. He also studied at the Educational Alliance Art School. Soyer was particularly interested in common everyday life. He drew attention to the working class, and the poor. Soyer emigrated with his family from Russia to New York. At one point, he focused his art on his Jewish family's middle class lifestyle. He also does paintings of men and women in deep thought in giant crowds or parties.

Susan T. Goodman. "Soyer." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 6 Feb. 2009 .

City Park
Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
c.1934

Office girls
Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987.
1936.

Cafeteria
Raphael Soyer
1937
William Gedney(1932-1989)

William Gedney was a fanouse photographer who photographed all over the United States, India, and Europe. He captured the life of the everyday person from a working coal miner to a hipper to hindu worshippers performing sacred rituals. He was simply interested in the lives of everyday people and the different characteristics of them that made them who they were at that moment.

"William Gedney Photographs and Writings." William Gedney Photographs and Writings. 1 Feb. 2008. Duke University. 6 Feb. 2009 .