Foreword Photography, the word, means writing with light … what happens when the writing is about light itself: natural or artificial, filtered, modulated or reflected? I think it is about the setting of a certain mood, photographically speaking, through exposure control, through tonal contrast and gradation, etc. that mood can be neutral, mysterious, dramatic, playful …
In the company of Lyonel Feininger and Brassai Lyonel Feininger was a painter, working between the two world wars, who was on the faculty of the Bauhaus, in Dessau, at the time he began his exploration of artistic photography, as derivative activity from his mainstay painting ones. He kept that activity mostly at night given …
Setting, scene and situation If most Cartier-Bresson’s photographs bear the unmistakable signature of what he coined as being the “decisive moment” it is because of his ability to be at the right vantage point, at the right time, to frame the decisive moment of a situation … under the right light! Such was my situation …
“My value lies in the fact that I am a man for whom the visible world exists” —Harry Callaghan, as quoted in the Photo Poche volume on his work. * Visual accommodation for the near and distant photographic subjects. In his “The nature of photography,” Stephen Shore mentions an interesting visual perception phenomenon that happens …
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San Francisco, CA – On display at the Exploratorium is a mesmerizing perceptual exhibition and installation by Los Angeles artist and engineer Ken Salter. His exhibition, titled “Reflecting Pool,” recently premiered on December 7th at the Exploratorium’s annual Glow event. “Reflecting Pool” uses video feedback to generate sublime interactive fractal images. This exhibition opened in …
Los Angeles in springtime is a celebration, no less so because we have such subtle changes of season. As a child I remember being struck by the changing quality of the light, the fireball that was summer with its golden rays giving way to a saffron-hued autumn. I watched the light water down to straw …
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