All Things Art & Photography
While many images are (for me) a little too detached and scientifically cool, Marten Lange’s series on the natural world titled Another Language is really wonderful and a great example of how to pace your images in a series and especially how the series becomes more important than each individual image. A great book to look at if you are thinking about how photographs work together and more importantly how they function as a language.
via the artist’s web site
21st Editions creates what many consider to be the most elegant photographic art books in the world. Our fine books and portfolios have been purchased by major collectors and museums from around the world. Our titles are illustrated with signed original photographs in platinum and silver. Each book is handmade, one at a time, using the finest papers, bindings, and often, letterpress printing. They are published in very small editions, and are individually signed by the artists and writers.
via the web site
Trained as a painter and influenced by the artists of the Italian Renaissance. The very talented Loretta Lux makes highly stylized and manipulated images of idealized children that are somehow to real to believe. It’s this tension she creates between the real and the stylized that makes her work so compelling.
via the artists web site
Viviane Sassen is a fashion photographer who lives in Amsterdam but her heart beats for Africa. What I like about her work is how she somehow weaves the personal & fashion with street & high art. It’s always what she does not show you that makes you want more. See her series Ultra-Violet and her Sketch Book
via the artists web site
Benson works hard on NASA images by combining multiple images and adding color.
“The process of creating full-color images from black-and-white raw frames—and mosaic composites in which many such images are stitched together—can be quite complicated,” Benson writes. “In order for a full-color image to be created, the spacecraft needs to have taken at minimum two, but preferably three, individual photographs of a given subject, with each exposed through a different filter… ideally, those filters are red, green, and blue, in which case a composite color image can usually be created without too much trouble. But in practice, such spacecraft as the Cassini Orbiter or the Mars Exploration Rovers … have many different filters, which they use to record wavelengths of light well outside of the relatively narrow red, green and blue (RGB) zone of the electromagnetic spectrum that human eyes can see.”
