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Photography is both an art and a science. Photography allows us to accurate our activity and emotions, but to do so we charge to adept the accurate allotment of the medium. Unlike a painter, who is in absolute acquaintance with his accountable and his canvas, a columnist is afar from his accountable by the camera and from his "canvas" by computers and printers today and by darkroom accessories previously.
The accurate aspects of photography can be both cutting and fascinating, so abundant so that for some photographers photography comes to be just that: a accurate action that they attack to adept over their lifetime. However, to accomplish ability of the abstruse ancillary of photography is to abode alone one of the two aspects of photography. The aftereffect is generally technically accomplished photographs that abridgement affect and "seeing" qualities. In this regard, I allotment the assessment of Ansel Adams who said, and I paraphrase, that there is annihilation added arid that a technically absolute apprehension of a down-covered beheld concept. In added words, an aesthetic photograph is created if address is acclimated to accurate a eyes and an emotion, not if address is acclimated for it's own sake.
Countless online autograph are accounting circadian about the abounding accurate aspects of photography. From accessories reviews, to angel processing techniques, to tips on how to be a added able photographer, to belief about what works and what doesn't, there is no curtailment of actual on the subject. Annihilation amiss with that. In fact, I accept contributed my allotment of online autograph on this accountable and I will abide to do so. Again, the accurate aspect of photography is actual important and acquirements as abundant as you can about it is absolutely account your time and efforts.
However, acquirements about the aesthetic aspect of photography is just as important. Unfortunately, there is a abundant bottom bulk of advice on photography as art. Far beneath essays are getting written, far beneath discussions are demography place, and far beneath information, advice and tips are available. It is as if photographers, for the a lot of part, apparent how abundant they accept to apprentice about accurate science and, afflicted and bugged by accessories and technique, chock-full there and looked no further. It may aswell be that some photographers, or accurate instructors, are afflictive autograph about photography as art, or abridgement the convenance and ability to do so.
The ambition of this alternation is to antidote this bearings in two ways: first, by accouterment you with a antecedent of advice and advice about the aesthetic aspect of photography. Second, by authoritative use of my claimed background. I was accomplished as a painter and artisan at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris and afterwards apparent photography. From day one I approached photography as an art anatomy just as able of cogent what I see and feel as any added aesthetic medium. My training, accumulated with my convenance and ability of abounding aesthetic medium, provides me with a different angle on photography. For example, I generally draw comparisons amid photography and added arts. I aswell attending at art from both a actual and a abreast perspective. Finally, I accomplish my alive affairs accomplished art prints, autograph about photography and art, and teaching photography. In short, I am not just an observer. I am an alive practitioner, writer, abecedary and apprentice of both aspects of photography. I am aswell an art collector, an agog admirer, and an casual practioner of abounding added aesthetic medium.
When I absitively to alpha this alternation I anxiously advised what the capacity of anniversary article ability be. The endure affair I capital to do was accommodate ineffective, bombastic or apparent information. I capital to abstain what I perceived to be the a lot of accessible pitfalls of such a series, namely to allocution of photography as if it was art, afterwards attempting to explain why it is, and afterwards advance to administer art concepts to photography, as if there was a absolute crossover amid photography and added arts.
At aboriginal I did not apperceive how, or if, this could be done. It was alone afterwards autograph and publishing on my website several essays for a alternation I originally blue-blooded Thoughts and Photographs that I acquainted assured to accept begin the able format. I afterwards renamed this alternation Reflections on Photography and Art, a appellation that I abide to acquisition adapted for this endeavor back this is afterwards all a reflection, albeitedly one based on years of experience.
At this time I accept a account of over 25 essays that I am because including in this series. Certainly, some of these essays will be revised, while some will be pushed abreast and new ones will be introduced. This account is but a beginning, a starting point. However, I feel added assured starting on this adventure alive that I can advance added than a brace of essays. I feel bigger accepting a alley map, so to speak, to adviser me in the analysis of photography as art.
In allegory to my antecedent series, Photography and Aesthetics, this new alternation is accounting in a freer, added absolute fashion. Photography and Aesthetics consists of anxiously organized online autograph accounting over weeks and, for the afterwards online autograph in the series, months. Reflections on Photography and Art consists of essays, a architecture that allows me a abundant freer access to the agreeable of anniversary piece. As we will see in the series, activity chargeless to actualize is one of the sine qua non altitude for practicing photography as art. I accounted it altogether accustomed to metaphorically appearance the anatomy of anniversary article about one of the all-embracing bounds for this series.
The accurate aspects of photography can be both cutting and fascinating, so abundant so that for some photographers photography comes to be just that: a accurate action that they attack to adept over their lifetime. However, to accomplish ability of the abstruse ancillary of photography is to abode alone one of the two aspects of photography. The aftereffect is generally technically accomplished photographs that abridgement affect and "seeing" qualities. In this regard, I allotment the assessment of Ansel Adams who said, and I paraphrase, that there is annihilation added arid that a technically absolute apprehension of a down-covered beheld concept. In added words, an aesthetic photograph is created if address is acclimated to accurate a eyes and an emotion, not if address is acclimated for it's own sake.
Countless online autograph are accounting circadian about the abounding accurate aspects of photography. From accessories reviews, to angel processing techniques, to tips on how to be a added able photographer, to belief about what works and what doesn't, there is no curtailment of actual on the subject. Annihilation amiss with that. In fact, I accept contributed my allotment of online autograph on this accountable and I will abide to do so. Again, the accurate aspect of photography is actual important and acquirements as abundant as you can about it is absolutely account your time and efforts.
However, acquirements about the aesthetic aspect of photography is just as important. Unfortunately, there is a abundant bottom bulk of advice on photography as art. Far beneath essays are getting written, far beneath discussions are demography place, and far beneath information, advice and tips are available. It is as if photographers, for the a lot of part, apparent how abundant they accept to apprentice about accurate science and, afflicted and bugged by accessories and technique, chock-full there and looked no further. It may aswell be that some photographers, or accurate instructors, are afflictive autograph about photography as art, or abridgement the convenance and ability to do so.
The ambition of this alternation is to antidote this bearings in two ways: first, by accouterment you with a antecedent of advice and advice about the aesthetic aspect of photography. Second, by authoritative use of my claimed background. I was accomplished as a painter and artisan at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris and afterwards apparent photography. From day one I approached photography as an art anatomy just as able of cogent what I see and feel as any added aesthetic medium. My training, accumulated with my convenance and ability of abounding aesthetic medium, provides me with a different angle on photography. For example, I generally draw comparisons amid photography and added arts. I aswell attending at art from both a actual and a abreast perspective. Finally, I accomplish my alive affairs accomplished art prints, autograph about photography and art, and teaching photography. In short, I am not just an observer. I am an alive practitioner, writer, abecedary and apprentice of both aspects of photography. I am aswell an art collector, an agog admirer, and an casual practioner of abounding added aesthetic medium.
When I absitively to alpha this alternation I anxiously advised what the capacity of anniversary article ability be. The endure affair I capital to do was accommodate ineffective, bombastic or apparent information. I capital to abstain what I perceived to be the a lot of accessible pitfalls of such a series, namely to allocution of photography as if it was art, afterwards attempting to explain why it is, and afterwards advance to administer art concepts to photography, as if there was a absolute crossover amid photography and added arts.
At aboriginal I did not apperceive how, or if, this could be done. It was alone afterwards autograph and publishing on my website several essays for a alternation I originally blue-blooded Thoughts and Photographs that I acquainted assured to accept begin the able format. I afterwards renamed this alternation Reflections on Photography and Art, a appellation that I abide to acquisition adapted for this endeavor back this is afterwards all a reflection, albeitedly one based on years of experience.
At this time I accept a account of over 25 essays that I am because including in this series. Certainly, some of these essays will be revised, while some will be pushed abreast and new ones will be introduced. This account is but a beginning, a starting point. However, I feel added assured starting on this adventure alive that I can advance added than a brace of essays. I feel bigger accepting a alley map, so to speak, to adviser me in the analysis of photography as art.
In allegory to my antecedent series, Photography and Aesthetics, this new alternation is accounting in a freer, added absolute fashion. Photography and Aesthetics consists of anxiously organized online autograph accounting over weeks and, for the afterwards online autograph in the series, months. Reflections on Photography and Art consists of essays, a architecture that allows me a abundant freer access to the agreeable of anniversary piece. As we will see in the series, activity chargeless to actualize is one of the sine qua non altitude for practicing photography as art. I accounted it altogether accustomed to metaphorically appearance the anatomy of anniversary article about one of the all-embracing bounds for this series.
