Why Bother?
"No one is interested in my art so why should I even bother doing it?" This thought has crossed my mind way more that once.
About: Mark
Website: http://www.forestrat.com
Bio: This is a blog about the things I like - fine art photography, art in general, poetry, and technology. Sometimes I'll post as myself and sometimes I'll use one of my alter egos, Rufus McGurk the art guy or Marko-san the haiku poetry guy.
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Author: Mark Whitney
Geometric Photography
A while back I had the chance to photograph an old steel bridge that spanned the Erie canal. It had been declared unsafe for traffic and was blocked off for a couple years ...
Not to be Trusted
A few posts back we talked about the idea that some artists get stuck in a rut creating similar works over and over again throughout their career. And then there are the artists ...
Moses has horns. What’s up with that?
If you look closely at Moses in this image of a circa 1621 painting by Giovanni Lanfranco you can see that the painter has stuck a couple of horns on his head. What's ...
What’s wrong with this picture?
Have you ever tried swinging a big scythe like this one? It ain't easy believe me.
I grew up on a small farm that had a barn built by ...
The One I’m Going to Take Tomorrow
The interviewer had asked Cunningham what was her favorite photograph from her seventy-five year career - "the one I'm going to take tomorrow".
Can a Photograph be Abstract?
I was reading an article on the Art Blart blog about an exhibition at the Tate Modern titled "Shape of Light: 100 years of photography and abstract art". The idea of the show ...
What does Music have to do with Photography?
You know that I believe strongly that photography is an art form (or at least it should be) and that I'm always frustrated by the fact that so many photographers concentrate only on the technical aspects ...
Paint Bots and Human Creativity
Last time we talked about how photo bots are changing photography. Of course photography is a very technical medium especially when done digitally so this is no great surprise, but what about something a little more ...
Some Machine is Doing That for You
Remember that song from Zager and Evans - 'In the Year 2525'? Anybody? No? Well look it up kids. Anyway at one point in the year 5555 they say that your legs got nothin' to do ...
The Unity of the Photographer and the Photographed
What's the relationship between an artist and the subject that they're expressing? More specifically for our purposes between a photographer and the thing photographed.
In my post Photographs: Gone in a Hundredth of a ...