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PHOTOGRAPHY

Reflections

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

Splash

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The One I’m Going to Take Tomorrow

by Mark Whitney January 13, 2019May 5, 2019
The interviewer had asked Cunningham what was her favorite photograph from her seventy-five year career - "the one I'm going to take tomorrow".
Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Can a Photograph be Abstract?

by Mark Whitney November 18, 2018November 18, 2018

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 ...

Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

What does Music have to do with Photography?

by Mark Whitney October 21, 2018October 21, 2018
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 ...
Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Paint Bots and Human Creativity

by Mark Whitney July 4, 2018
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 ...
Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Some Machine is Doing That for You

by Mark Whitney June 16, 2018June 23, 2018
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 ...
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 ...

Photograph of black rubber by Mark Whitney

Photographs: Gone in a Hundredth of a Second

by Mark Whitney February 18, 2018March 17, 2018
I was reading the transcript of an interview with Lee Friedlander when one of his comments struck a personal chord with me. Best known as a street photographer, in the 1960s and 70s Friedlander developed a ...
Photograph of the Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge

Buy My Prints on Etsy

by Mark Whitney February 10, 2018February 17, 2018
I often feature photographs that I've created, like the one above, on posts here at the Forest Rat blog. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get your hands on a print or two and hang ...

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