Category: Beauty and Sublime
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Ingrid Pollard
Website Through her practice, Guyanese-born artist Ingrid Pollard addresses her feelings towards the rural countryside as a non-white British subject, articulating her profound sense of being an outsider to these spaces. In some of her projects, Pollard hand tints black-and-white prints. This strategy has a dual purpose: firstly, it is a play on the idea of ‘colour’ in terms…
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Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky (born January 15, 1955) is a German photographer and Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. Gursky shares a studio with Laurenz Berges, Thomas Ruff and Axel Hutte on the Hansaallee, in Düsseldorf. The building, a former electricity station, was transformed into an artists studio and living quarters, in 2001, by architects Herzog & de…
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Helen Sear
Creative Wales award. Not just the eye. Uses the hand to pain in parts. Sculptural and 3D form. Liberate from computer screen. Different types of paper. Or use CAD. Body in the landscape, or landscape in the body What does it mean to be both human and animal? Wants to concentrate on unremarkable landscape –…
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John Pfahl
Born in New York in 1939, John Pfahl was raised in Wanaque, New Jersey. He received a BFA from Syracuse University’s School of Art and his MA from Syracuse University’s School of Communications. Pfahl is known for his innovative landscape photography such as Altered Landscape, his first major series of un-manipulated color photographs on which…
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The Zone System
to be further elaborated Human vision is far superior to any camera in terms of the range of tones it can encompass within a single field of vision. Early photographic emulsions were considerably more sensitive to blue light than to other colours on the spectrum of visible light. This meant that landscape photographs, particularly those…
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Landscape and the City
!!To be developed with documentary Since the very beginning of photography, the city has provided opportunities for the photographer: landscape and other subject matter. Detachment Daguerre’s. ‘View boulevard du temple’. First example of photograph of a person. Only rendered because he must have remained relatively still to have his shoes shined. Talbot’s views of Paris.…
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Lake District photographers
Photographers found from a Google Search on Lake District Photography. Brian Kerr These ones are my favourites from the search. Particularly the misty lakes and sunsets are beautiful. Colours have been altered but not over contrasty or just standard use of warm up filters. The images are very sharp. Subjects are often placed centrally using wide…