Essays

Introduction In the early days of photography art critics refused to consider it as a medium for the creation of fine art. Back then all photography was considered vernacular photography;…

There is nothing in art photography that I couldn’t do. Well, actually, there is a lot I can’t do. But I could do it all if I really wanted to.…

Introduction This paper will explore the history and evolution of American landscape photography, concentrating on western landscape art, and culminating in the art of contemporary landscape photographers. It will be…

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…

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…

‘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…

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…

Years ago, when my infatuation with photography was still in its infancy, there was a guy I knew, call him Arnie, who was an outstanding photographer. Arnie was a co-worker…

Introduction The landscape of America’s West has long been the subject of American photographers. Samuel Morse scarcely had introduced the daguerreotype to America when explorer John C. Fremont decided to…

Unintentional Art In painting, the Art medium to which photography is most often compared, the painter’s hand, not the painter’s tool, plays the primary role in the creation of an…