Fine Art Photography
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Perhaps there is one thing on which all photographers can agree: we love to photograph our pets. From amateur to professional, a simple photo of our dog, cat, or guinea pig making “that face” is almost irresistible and, based on the current exhibit at The Museum of the Dog, this fascination with photographing our pets reaches into the past for as long as the medium has existed.
On this week’s episode, we welcome author and vernacular photography collector Catherine Johnson, and
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Photography is an art medium to create work using real life as the art material.
—Pixy Liao, artist, actress, musician
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Every photograph tells a story, fiction or non-fiction, but the best photographs are like poems: they make you feel something true.
—Morrigan McCarthy, National Picture Editor at the New York Times
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I don’t know what it is, but for me, it’s just a reflection of the self, or an attempt to understand the self through the outside world, and maybe communicate that to others.
Every photo is a self-portrait. When I get to choose what I shoot, I shoot what I like, what I see as good, what I find reflects some aspect of myself... and when I don’t get to choose, it becomes “what is it about this that I like”… or
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One of the best ways to grow as a photographer is to immerse yourself in art. Museums and art galleries have long served as perennial sources of creative inspiration. In recent years, an even more photocentric phenomenon has gained traction: the photo festival. In addition to providing exhibition spaces for artists, curators, and galleries, many of these events also include artist talks, panel discussions, portfolio
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What is photography? Everything from a daguerreotype to a digital print, from Man Ray’s rayograms to Adam Fuss’s photograms, from sand-toned carbon prints by Julia Margaret Cameron to manipulated color Polaroids by Lucas Samaras to Jeff Wall’s meticulously constructed, computer-manipulated fictions. It’s Nadar and Penn, Brassai and Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin and Gilbert & George, “Migrant Mother,” “Dovima
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Photography is a dialogue between the external world and your own interior life… between what you know and what you don’t know… between expectation and surprise… between the concrete and the ambiguous…
—Gus Powell, photographer
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Photography is alive (not still). It’s constantly moving and evolving. It’s a mutable collective visual prosthetic. In 2019, there are 7.7 billion different photographies in the world.
— Penelope Umbrico, artist
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What makes a photograph a photograph? When I take a picture of you, who owns that image? Should certain things never be photographed? Do photographs belong in art museums? These are just a few of the questions writers have wrestled with since photography was invented nearly two centuries ago.
The photo community has a unique advantage over other art forms. As the most democratic of the arts, photographs, by their very nature, are among the most easily shared and viewed. This has given rise to an abundance of photographic portfolio reviews. In recent years, the portfolio review has become ubiquitous in the field of photography, providing a venue for photographers of all levels, from students to enthusiasts to accomplished professionals. Opportunities for critique, feedback, and professional connection are also available within a
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My trying to define photography is doing the work I do… and I only hope to work harder.
— Jeff Mermelstein, photographer
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Fine art photographer John Paul Caponigro found a love for printed photographs at a young age. In the age of digital photography, he believes printed images connect people to the photographs that viewing them on a screen cannot provide, especially when looking at fine art photography. After hearing Caponigro’s explanation for why printing is so important, will you start printing your photographs? Let us know in the Comments section, below!
See John Paul Caponigro's work by clicking here.
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Everything we do at Baxter St is based in the community we serve. It's a common theory, but we hold a lot of value in the notion that photography is the most democratic art medium. To that end, we truly believe that uplifting and empowering underrepresented and emerging voices can shift narratives, ignite change, provoke conversation, and build a common vision. Photography, to us, is power.
— Michi
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Photography is more accessible than ever before. Its codes are fluently read and rapidly reproduced by most people who produce and consume photographs in social media and elsewhere, as a communication strategy is essentially eloquent, poignant, complex, and charged. But the hyper-trafficking of photographs has (further) commodified them and simplified their meaning—most photographs have become memes.
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What is Photography?
glimpse, contemplate, behold, study, observe, inspect, review, depict, admire, illuminate, perceive
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—Milagros de la Torre, artist
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