On Finders and Makers
Basically, there are only two categories of art photography, the found and the made. I realize that is like claiming there are basically only two categories of color, whereas the…
Fairyland – a Whispered Warning
Yang Yongliang, Fairyland, 2007 Introduction From a distance, or perhaps with only the most cursory of inspections, a viewer might see Fairyland, by contemporary Chinese photographic artist Yang Yongliang,[1] as…
Dimensions in Texture: Photographs by Robert Schenkein
Having recently posted an essay on art photography’s trend away from the dominance of photons to the dominance of pixels (see my essay Of Comets and Pixels ) I suppose…
Of Comets and Pixels: On the decline of art photography and the rise of pixelography
‘The world is going to hell in a hand basket, and so is art photography.” As I am an aging member of the Boomer generation, it should not be surprising…
The Iconic Image and Photographic Fame
Recently I had the pleasure of taking in an exhibit at the Longmont Museum featuring two “American Visionaries”, photographer Dorothea Lange and her one-time husband, the artist Maynard Dixon. As…
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Manipulated
To a certain extent, all fine art photographers follow Minor White’s dictum to capture the subjects of their work “not only for what they are, but what else they are.”…
Street View
Street Photography is Alive, Well and Evolving One of the earliest known photographs, View of Boulevard du Temple (Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, 1839), not only introduced photography to the world,…
Hidden World
In Atmosphere, photographer Evan Anderman’s previous exhibit at his Journey Through Landscape gallery, he recalled the sinuous cloud images of early 20th century master Alfred Stieglitz’ and his famous ‘Equivalents’…
Eye Want More
All too often fine art photography galleries offer too little beauty and too much ‘concept’. Call me old fashioned, but I want, my artist’s eyes want, to appreciate more than…