Abstract Photography - Has photography come of age
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"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential.
Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in
the distance. Always, I am on the threshold." -W. Eugene
Smith
The invention of the camera liberated painting from its
reportage role. Gone was the need to produce a likeness, detail
the events of the story, painting was free to express emotions.
True what had gone before contained an emotional content but now
painting could experiment and through imaginative interpretation
allow the emotional content to predominate.
As the 19th century evolved and throughout the 20th century
painters from the impressionists through the cubists and
expressionists to the minimalists could to use colour, line and
form to go straight to the emotional content of their work.
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representational aspect of the work become coincidental and was
pushed to the point that it became akin to lying on the grass
making shapes out of clouds. Enjoyable as it may be it is
secondary to the nature of clouds.
The introduction of the digital darkroom has given this freedom
to photographers. The range of tools to fix and enhance the
camera's capture when pushed to its extremes produces a range of
fascinating effects. When added to the filters built into the
better software, images can be produced that any comparison to
the original photograph is purely coincidental.
With the use of these tools, the skilled photographic artist can
take the pop song and create, in visual terms, the lyric beauty
of a baroque symphony or the down town jive of a jazz variation
without a tree or high
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rise in sight. Just the light captured by
the camera and fine tuned into something completely different,
something new that comes from the photographer.
The photographer has been liberated like the painter before them
by technology. Now photographs can explore the full range of
human experience including those that have no words to express
them. Large statements will be accessible by the photographer
not only in physical terms. Like their painter counterparts a
large canvas is becoming the order of the day. That this canvas
can express feelings rather than just illustrate them denotes
that the photograph has become an adult in the arts
About the author:
Henry Bateman is an artist/photographer. His work can be seen at
http://www.pissedpoet.com
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