Pictorialist Photography
I had been developing my particular style of photography for a few years before it was pointed out how similar my work was to the Pictorialist photographers of times past. Before then I had not even heard of Pictorialist’s. Surely I would have had some introduction to their work through my prior studies in photography. [...]
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A Series Of Questions
Margaret Harker in the book “The Linked Ring” writes:
The image construction of a photograph is entirely different from that of a free-hand drawing or painting. Nevertheless, it is creative thought and visual discrimination combined with manual dexterity which distinguishes the master painter from the hack; likewise it is creative thought and visual discrimination combined with [...]
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Precedence
Shamrock Club lacrosse team, Champions of the World, composite, 1879, originally uploaded by Musée McCord Museum.
There are some people who treat digital photography, and especially the composite images I am creating, as hacking…..not worthy of being considered photography at all. Or they wonder what it is and how to define it. Is it photography? Is [...]
In: The Subject of Art · Tagged with: composite photographs, history, Notman, photography
