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Finding the Story in Art

by Mark Whitney November 29, 2019November 29, 2019

My next few posts are going to be about looking at art works and finding the stories they tell. Some of the stories are easy to find and some take a little digging, ...

Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Why Bother?

by Mark Whitney September 28, 2019September 28, 2019
"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.
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Geometric Photography

by Mark Whitney July 27, 2019July 27, 2019

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 ...

Right Bird Left by Lee Krasner

Not to be Trusted

by Mark Whitney June 2, 2019June 2, 2019

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 and the Messengers from Canaan

Moses has horns. What’s up with that?

by Mark Whitney May 12, 2019June 26, 2019

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 ...

The Veteran in a New Field - Winslow Homer

What’s wrong with this picture?

by Mark Whitney March 17, 2019March 17, 2019

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 ...

Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

The Death of Photography

by Marko May 12, 2018May 28, 2018
I figure photography died somewhere around 1995. Gone. Kaput.

But wait you say, what about all these zillions of images I see floating around the web?

Well, if we define photography in ...

Abstract stream of water splashing off stones. Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

The Unity of the Photographer and the Photographed

by Mark Whitney March 18, 2018March 24, 2018
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 ...

Copyrights Are Confusing

by Mark Whitney August 20, 2017September 3, 2017
I began to write a post discussing the new Tate director's (Maria Balshaw) desire to make the museum more inclusive to everyone and increase attendance. I thought it would be nice to include an image from ...

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