The Death of Photography
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 ...
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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 ...
Photographs: Gone in a Hundredth of a Second
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 ...
Buy My Prints on Etsy
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 ...
Pop, Deadpan, and Conceptual Photography
Just as there are different styles of painting - cubist, impressionist, realist - there are different kinds of photography.
Today let's talk about three of those styles that have been on my mind lately ...
Trails of light
When I was in the fifth or sixth grade I found a Kodak travel camera tucked away on the top shelf of the hallway closet buried under a pile of winter gloves and hats. It had ...
Photography in the Abstract
Let's talk abstract photography. To do that we'll need to talk a bit about abstract art in general and to do that we need to talk about music. Stick with me here.
Imagine that ...
Natural Aesthetics: Emerson, Thoreau, and Muir
In my last post I mentioned a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson because all this talk of whether it is better to appreciate nature through the steady empirical eyes of science or the soaring imaginative eyes ...
Natural Aesthetics: Going Beyond Science
In my last post, Appreciating Nature with Science, we talked about Allen Carlson's idea that the best framework for properly appreciating nature as nature is science. Knowing a bit of natural history and environmental science ...
Appreciating Nature with Science
In my first post about appreciating nature we saw that appreciating nature as itself, as nature, and not as "the environment" or as merely a backdrop for our activities, etc. is a lot more difficult than ...
Nat101: Nature Appreciation 101
Remember those old freshman college appreciation courses like Art Appreciation 102? Classes that got you some easy credits and were intended to give you a well rounded education. You're fresh out of high school majoring in ...