No color in my life now...well for a wile...since my second theme change slightly bit....I don't even know how to call it now....Landscape via Reportage...maybe...
Anyway I had to finish my research on this subject...only one month is left till final date...and lots more to do....
Same as last year in my research about photographers I wanted include some one from my country...probably it is something to do with sentimentality...I left long time ago, I new only old masters, but recently looking through the Internet Latvian web pages I discover that since then a lot of new artists are become more popular, so I decided to pic up one of them, with similar stile what I need to complete my journey to black&white photography.
Raimo Lielbriedis
/Despite the ability to realistically and simply reflect reality, photography is one of the most personal and unexpected form of expression. / R. Lielbriedis//
Raimo Lielbriedis (1962) - dealing with photography since 1978. He organized six solo exhibitions and participated in more than 17 group exhibitions. His works in collections can be found not only in Latvia, but also in Denmark, Poland, Bulgaria and Finland. Recently he won a prize in the Year photo gallery "Art Garden" and is one of the tutors of John Rosenthal - Riga- High School of Art.
He also is author of book, what introduces beginners with world of photography - "How to shoot?"The book does not pretend to be a fundamental photography course. Relatively easy to read, distancing from the technical terminology and hardware descriptions and also very positive.
Addition of each chapter, with practical tasks, Raimo talks about main success key for freshly baked camera owners - to think, before press a switch.
I didn't have that book I just been reading the review...and then he grab my attention with some of his black and white works, no matter that he also gives attention to color photography.
Raimo black&white`s are very inspiring, very similar to what I wanted to achieve and what I need researching more....
Raimo black&white`s are very inspiring, very similar to what I wanted to achieve and what I need researching more....
This is my favorite...I saw this and wish I was home...I can feel the sea...monochrome gives this photograph that fantastic feel, what color will probably kill...
Low angle, slightly close,interesting composition, very own and very strong in my opinion....sea is nearby, house in the edge, still made me feel homesick.
I like sea scenes in color, nothing wrong with that, but this black&white image capture also some kind of beauty, that days breeze and mood of the sea....
I am not patriot, not at all....but I am happy that even my miserable poor and small country have persons, that despite everything still sees a nice things, do good work, and achieve something...
R.Lielbriedis presentation methods also talks about author only positive way, looks excellent and works very well in order to impress audience of exhibition....it is something similar what I had in mind at the end of this theme...frame all my work...
(more images)
http://www.birkenfelds.lv/eng/page/225/
Landscape is the genre which, more than any other, sets in competition the simple viewer...the painter, amateur or professional photographer and each one wishes to recall a personal vision of this collective spectacle....But however - landscape requires particular attention to physical environment rather than people.
Landscape is the genre which, more than any other, sets in competition the simple viewer...the painter, amateur or professional photographer and each one wishes to recall a personal vision of this collective spectacle....But however - landscape requires particular attention to physical environment rather than people.
John Blakemore
John Blakemore is a master - renowned for his richly detailed and nuanced landscapes and still-lifes, predominantly in monochrome.
Born in Coventry. He discovered photography during National Service with the Royal Air Force in Tripoli in the 1950s. After return he started working on his own documentary photography in Coventry, shooting the new immigrant population.
The University of Derby became his new employer where he taught the Diploma in Creative Photography.
His landscape photography began just before he moved to Derby and it was always about ideas about place rather than just the place itself. He wanted to capture a sense of the forces that shape the landscape at large. Nearly all of John’s work was based on the exploration of a theme or topic and worked out as a series of pictures over time. In the late 1980s he stopped his landscape work and started working on still life.
Borrowing once again books from library I get one of his works - workshops in Black and White photography.... very good learning material for those who working with film...I didn't find nothing useful for myself as a digital camera owner apart from lovely images of water making parallels with my own work.
Borrowing once again books from library I get one of his works - workshops in Black and White photography.... very good learning material for those who working with film...I didn't find nothing useful for myself as a digital camera owner apart from lovely images of water making parallels with my own work.
Even if world accelerates towards the digital future John Blakemore works are irresistible …I really admire how he captures water and sea scenes...how he balance the black and white tones of rock and sea......rockfaces and occasional rock pool-the intimate details of the beach.
John Blakemore, as I read, is one of those very rare individuals in British photography whose work is known, and appreciated, across the entire spectrum of the craft. Whether you talk to advertising or editorial photographers, artists or darkroom specialists, his reputation is held in equal respect. One of the strengths of his imagery lies in its elements of accessibility. It's work that someone entirely new to photography can approach and enjoy.
-Books :
-Books :
- John Blakemore. British Image 3. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977.
- Spirit of Place: Photographs in Wales, 1971–78. Welsh Arts Council, 1979.
- Inscape: Photographs by John Blakemore. London: Zelda Cheatle Press, 1991.
- The Stilled Gaze. London: Zelda Cheatle Press, 1994.
- John Blakemore's Black and White Photography Workshop. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 2005
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Naseeb Baroody
/1924 – 2010/
/1924 – 2010/
More I learn about great landscape photographers ...more I understand, that more or less everyone are very much inspired by Ansel Adams. Every time I read about some artist I came across Adams name...N.Baroody is not exception. He several times attended legendary Ansel Adams workshops. So is really not surprising that he works are real piece of art.
Naseeb Beshara Baroody was born April 1924, in Florence, South Carolina to Lebanese parents. His life work in photography began early in his life - with a passion for black and white images. As a child, the technical and artistic aspects of photographic expression fascinated him, he began with the classic Baby Brownie and progressing into medium and large format cameras.
Although that his mine job was in medicine, he also was an author of an award winning books of fine art photography and many of many his prints is worth admiring ...specially seascapes, what became my mine subject of the landscape theme.
The sea is an endlessly inspiring environment....it can offer the potential for a huge range of pictures... N.Baroody was a genius for spotting that potential...he easy fined inspiration from lighting, subject matter and record shoots...
Hasn’t nothing to compare whit that I just want to say, - my opinion about black and white photography now is very high...and now I truly understand why is returning back into digital world....Black and white photography gives incredible lightness to the image, it's not overloaded with bold colors, but its simple , plain, calm....
Some photographers only work in black and white, others only with color, but digital photography allows the rest of us to have the best of both worlds and thats is amazing....
More from N.Baroody... just fallow those links...
http://www.jogglingboardpress.com/authors/baroody.html
http://www.baroodyphoto.com/index.html
Fallowing Black&White photography as I researched photographers give me an inspiration for life, I gain a good knowledge about famous people, they work, technics. I really started to love black and whites and probably for future I will be exploring more as I learn and grow into photo industry....
Fallowing link introduces you with some of the best books about black and white photography and anyone who are interested are welcome to take a look....
http://www.bestphotographybooks.com/genres/black-white
http://www.baroodyphoto.com/index.html
Fallowing Black&White photography as I researched photographers give me an inspiration for life, I gain a good knowledge about famous people, they work, technics. I really started to love black and whites and probably for future I will be exploring more as I learn and grow into photo industry....
Fallowing link introduces you with some of the best books about black and white photography and anyone who are interested are welcome to take a look....
http://www.bestphotographybooks.com/genres/black-white
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