Fine Art Photography
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Photography is a tool.
To be used to get at what you’re trying to say.
To speak back to your life experiences and the world at large.
—Nydia Blas, artist
Photograph © Cory Rice
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Photography is like life, but at its best, it’s life seen better. August Sander once spoke about the universality of photography, about the advantage it has of being instantly perceived. And with that, it can either deceive or tell a penetrating truth. Many decades later, Philip-Lorca diCorcia said something to the effect that photography is a foreign language that everyone thinks they understand. I think
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
Photography is a different way of seeing life, sometimes it takes you outside of life, like a magic portal. Photography is a mirror and also visual connection between me and others in the world. I see lives, people, emotions, and spirits with my empathy, and the viewer adds their own reflection to the work. Through photography I can clearly see the shape of myself.
— Shangyu
Photography is a tool to make signs of significance. It brings aspects of the world into sharper focus while it deepens their mysteries. Photography both obscures and reveals as it liberates and enslaves. Gilles Peress says photography is the synthesis of three distinct elements. First there is the specificity of the technology—because the camera and the means to disseminate the image imprints upon
The photographic divide between art and tech is a curious thing. In my experience writing about the field, I’ve found that when photographers gather to discuss the medium’s connection to technical or scientific concerns, shoptalk is ubiquitous, and chatter about gear flows from the lips. Yet when photographers are immersed in more of an arts-oriented environment, responses to questions about material tools become somewhat vague and ephemeral. Such was my challenge at the opening of this year’s Association of International Photography Art
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Photography is an endeavor that goes beyond narration. For me, it's a personal attempt at harnessing a memory, like a self-written note or journal entry. It's difficult to define photography, because I view it as an ongoing conversation. As the photographer, we decide whether to send the letter or if the page remains in our journal.
— Katie
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The photographs I have seen are all part of me. My entire life, I have been absorbing media, which has greatly affected the person I am now and my understanding of life itself. Photography is a powerful visual language, and like the written word, it can be poetic and holds the possibility to restructure knowledge. By presenting my partner within the lineage of great beauties and populating the media
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As we prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, we welcome an artist to the B&H Photography Podcast who is using her camera to examine quotidian spaces to further a conversation about the “deeply felt subjective experiences of motherhood,” particularly as they are felt in the workplace. Joining us is photographer Corinne May Botz, whose current series is entitled “Milk
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The lens I have on the world is one of welcoming. You know how people yearn to be part of something, and always feel a bit too late or not invited at all? Weren’t in Paris in the 1920s, weren’t at Andy Warhol’s Factory, and on and on. But great unsung moments and people are alive today; we just don’t always see them that way. When I am photographing I feel connected and in love with existence, and I want my photos to
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The world of fine art photography is transforming as rapidly as the commercial marketplace. Creating and properly marketing a body of fine art work can be instrumental in developing multiple revenue streams to support your business while at the same time keeping your vision fresh and alive.
What is a fine art photograph? What is the correct market for your fine art work and how do you reach that market? How should you present your work to galleries, and create marketing materials and a Web site? What expectations does a gallery have, and what
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The first amateur photographic entity in the United States was the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club, New York City, which existed from 1861–1863. The oldest continuously extant camera club in the United States founded, at least in part, by amateurs is the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, founded in 1862.
On today’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we talk about camera clubs and, specifically, the
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Photography is an interpretation of what you see. It’s fun to see creativity, exploration, and emotion radiate from an image when the photographer has been true.
—JR Martin, Visual Consultant, Duggal Visual Solutions
Photograph © Cory Rice
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To represent someone else's story is a struggle, you have to give everything to that person because there's so much at stake. Photography is a practice, a process, and a struggle to do justice to a story.
—Nolan Ryan Trowe, documentarian
Photograph © Cory Rice
