Often employing a high point of view, his large format architecture and landscape color photographs create an illusion of spaces larger
than the subjects photographed.
Not exact matches
If, in a portrait so produced, the lines of the
subject have been made rather sharper
than reality and the contrasts somewhat more vivid
than life, it succeeds as no
photograph could in eliminating the irrelevancies involved in all events in time, and highlights the essential, enduring meaning.
«I found there was much more flexibility when approaching the
subject than I had anticipated there would be, which was really interesting for me since I'm used to shooting animals — which require very immediate, instinctive responses — or
photographing and interviewing people, which is a much more cerebral undertaking.»
Although the
subjects rated the gun
photographs as being more stressful
than the illness images, the blood work told a different story.
It includes more
than 1500 images of scientific, biological, and medical
subjects that were
photographed using light and electron microscopes.
When they are not circling the globe searching for
subjects for The Sarcastic Lens, Richard and Amy can usually be found trying to
photograph their two children and two grandsons, who often prove more challenging
than any wildlife they encounter.
But the similarity of all these books to the copies we read back home is no more
than the similarity a
photograph has to its
subject; these books are alive.
Coyne's sculptures and
photographs have been the
subject of more
than 30 solo museum exhibitions.
This approach produced
photographs that focused on the
subject, rather
than the environment in which they might have been found.
In addition to his
photographs, Weber has two books on his work and is the
subject of the documentary «More
Than the Rainbow.
He has been testing the limits of his medium for more
than two decades, producing
photographs in series with
subjects that range from domestic interiors to the planets, from modernist architecture to abstract psychedelia, from specific portraits to generic internet pornography.
For more
than a century, photographers have dealt with the spaces of their studios in strikingly diverse and inventive ways: from using composed theatrical tableaux (in
photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron or Cindy Sherman) to putting their
subjects against neutral backdrops (Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe); from the construction of architectural sets within the studio (Francis Bruguière, Thomas Demand) to chemical procedures conducted within the darkroom (Walead Beshty, Christian Marclay); and from precise recordings of motion (Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton) to playful, amateurish experimentation (Roman Signer, Peter Fischli and David Weiss).
His
photographs were often dismissed as Walker Evans — lite, but since his
subject was more about subtle shifts in perspective
than about the image per se, the comparison was unfair.
Thus while he painted individuals from
photographs, Richter's replica images were often blurred and bore nothing distinctively identifiable about the
subject, an effect that forced the viewer to consider the fundamental components of the painting itself, such as composition, color scheme, and so forth, rather
than leaving the viewer to identify with, or be distracted by, a picture's implied content or its emotional element of «humanity.»
Subjects of his paintings are developed from both of the Jamaican and British culture, and he prefers to create his works rather from
photographs,
than memory.
The titles of his pieces reflect his feelings on each
subject and cause the viewer to look deeper into the
photographs than they might originally intend.»
This generation embodies Wessel's notion of being «actively receptive»: rather
than searching for particular
subjects, they are open to
photographing anything around them.
The
photographs, which were originally captured in the early «90s and were first exhibited at the 1994 Havana Bienal, depict the boxers at the academy while focusing on the pervading transcendental atmosphere of the space rather
than the individual
subjects.
These
photographs, with their informal approach to everyday
subjects, reveal his free spirit and love of life, rather
than a concern for photographic technique and craft, and often capture a sense of movement.
The
subjects are painted directly from life rather
than photographs in an attempt to represent the
subjects with simple clarity and truthful illusion.»
The way she frames her
subjects keep us coming back for more and quite frankly, she doesn't need to print the
photographs larger
than life to get her point across.
Influenced by Baroque and modern figures, Khushna combines traditional and digital approaches by painting from
photographs rather
than live
subjects.
That nearly extremist attention to detail when reproducing Alphonse Bertillon or Marcel Monnier's
photographs always give the impression that Eric knows the
subject better
than the photographer itself, and without falling into the hyperrealism - or - not discussion, his «duplicates» are always new and unique.
As Mr. Galassi makes clear in his wall texts and catalog, the photographer's studio is less a
subject unto
subject itself
than a setting lurking behind or around the
photographs of personalities or bodies performing for the camera within it.
The exhibition traces the artist's evolution over a five - decade - period and brings together more
than 200
photographs, including his iconic images of familiar, everyday
subjects in addition to lesser - known, early black - and - white prints and provocative video recordings.
It's similar to why you don't really see stars in Apollo photos from the moon — the
subjects being
photographed were so much brighter
than the background stars that the exposures weren't long enough to capture the stars.