Steve Liss

For this post, I wanted to write about a photographer, but to be honest, I don’t keep up with who’s good, who’s famous, and whatnot.  Hopefully that will change, especially since I found a link to this guy, Steve Liss.

Check out his webpage here.

Check out this guy’s photo-essays.  The topics range from teenage runaways to poverty to the trials of being a parent in the modern age.  What struck me in particular was how he used color.  He seems to often set the tone with color but isn’t restricted by it.  He can have a happy photo in black and white.  At first I thought he used black and white to set a more serious, depressed tone, and in most cases he does, but there are several photographs that have a happy, hopeful tone even though they are in black and white, like the ending of A Second Chance for Santos.   He has some amazing pictures in color, especially under his American Scene tab.  I love the picture of the city and the baseball field under American Scene.  The colors are so vibrant and striking in both pictures, and they both have a unique angle.  His photographs have been on the cover of Time Magazine 43 times.

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