Maynard Owen Williams

Maynard Owen Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Owen_Williams Maynard Owen Williams, born in Montour Falls, New York, grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After receiving degrees simultaneously from Kalamazoo College and the University of Chicago, he spent a few years teaching at what later became the American University in Beirut, then worked as a Baptist Missionary teacher in Hangchow, China. He joined the National Geographic staff in 1919 after spending some years with the Kalamazoo Gazette and Christian Herald. During his career with the Society, Williams photographed and wrote about many areas of the world including Greece, the Middle East, China, Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan, Sinai, the Netherlands, and the East Indies, contributing over ninety magazine articles. He participated in the opening of King Tutakhamen's tomb in Egypt in 1923. National Geographic's MacMillan Arctic Expedition in 1925, and the French Citroen-Haardt Expedition crossing Asia by motor car in 1931- 1932. Williams spent thirty-four years with National Geographic, many of them as the chief foreign editor. He died in 1963. this man did a lot of very weird picture, you can tell they are Maynard Owen williams images because they are all in black and white and they are also quite creepy, i like how he has his own style and try's not to copy of anyone else, i like his own personal technique to taking pictures, and i like how he uses different things to make different photography objects to help out with his work, i like how he gets random people to pose and gets it to looks extra good. i think that he wanted to do more pictures like this because there was more photographers before him that did one or two pictures like this but i think he really liked them, i think the war and the different fashions in different places pushed him towards his work.