Style- Jessica Mingle

In the monograph Sand Sea Sky by Tria Giovan, there are many photographs of the beaches of Sagaponack. The pictures are all landscape portraits of the shoreline. She tends to use the rule of thirds to place either the sand, sea, sky or all three within the frame of the picture. The pictures tend to have mainly a wide angle of the coast. They all have a deep depth of field. The color of the picture are very true to how they would be found in nature. There are a variety of different pictures of the waves. Some are washing calmly upon the shore while others are violently breaking on the shore. Man made structures are mostly kept out of the pictures. They are focused on beaches that have not been disturbed by humans. Also, most of the pictures are taken with relativity clear skies, with a few taken in heavy mist or fog. The ocean appears to be vast and endless in all of the pictures. It has the illusion of continuing on past the horizon line. All of the pictures are taken horizontally. Overall, she really tries to capture how the ocean is changing constantly and how the surrounding factors can change how the waves behave.

In the monograph Dictionary of Water by Roni Horn, there are lot of pictures of just water. All of the photographs in this book are taken from overhead on a slight angle. They are all of the River Thames. These photographs are all true to how the colors of the water would appear in nature. Also, in all of the photographs, the water is always in motion, it is never still. There is nothing polluting the water to distract the viewer of the photographs. There are also no natural things such as plants to distract the viewer. There is also not any strong glare on the water to take away from focusing on the water itself. Since the River Thames is not the cleanest river in the world, all of the pictures tend to be more brownish or greenish in color unlike the blues that are commonly found in ocean photography. The pictures are framed so you see nothing but the water of the River Thames. Without looking up the book, the viewer would never know if the pictures were taken from the same river, let alone what source the water came from because of the diversity of the pictures.

In the monograph Paris New York Shanghai: A book about the past, present, and (possibly) future capital of the world by Hans Eijkelboom, there are collections of photographs that all look very similar at the first glance, however, are different upon a closer viewing. The majority of pictures are taken of the residents of these cities with a few cityscapes thrown in here and there. The cityscapes are put in to show the similarities and differences between the three world capitals. As for the photographs of the people, they all look identical at first. However, upon further inspection you realize that the people are all different but they are wearing similar things or doing similar activities. The photographs themselves have the subjects tightly framed to allow the viewer to focus without getting distracted by the background. Also, the similar object tends to be placed in approximately the same spot in each photograph. The pictures are meant to be looked at as a collection rather than looking at each photograph separately. The colors of the photographs are kept to be very true to what you would see in real life. All of the pictures tend to have a deep depth of field.