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Boughn
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 09:15:45 AM by Boughn - member is an admin |
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Cleaper
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 10:04:43 AM by Cleaper |
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Great article and something I often think about. I use photography as an artistic outlet and I would like to think that some of my images are creative enough to be considered artistic! I think sometimes I tone this down if I am uploading images for stock so I do seem to have a slight distinction in my mind as to what is commercially useful and what is art but I think that is because I am not quite good enough as either an artist or photographer! However, I have had a few images approved on Dreamstime that I would consider more arty than commercial and it put a huge smile on my face! At home I have lots of photographic prints on my walls rather than paintings, either by famous photographers or by inspired amateurs. I also love reading up on the relationship between art and photography within our culture - fascinating subject. By the way I think Dpelleginnos shot looks like a Furness rather than a bourke-white and Tomd's bed reminds me of Tracey Emin art! |
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Debljames
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 10:14:56 AM by Debljames |
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Ellen, you have a very cool job! I really enjoy your articles. Keep up the great work. |
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Boughn
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 11:52:56 AM by Boughn - member is an admin |
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Good guesses Cleaper. But the Forgiss image guess isn't even close. The color hand photo reminds me of a photographer whose name begins with a B and wasn't on my list of 'possibles. Keep guessing! |
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Maigi
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 12:39:16 PM by Maigi |
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Great article! Thoughts for my soul. :) Loved to watch and listen John Berger on BBC show "Ways Of Seeing" about oil paintings and advertising. This link was on one of those weblogs, you referred in your article. Great thoughts. About images, for some reasons Egomezta's Yosemite Park reminds me Ansel Adams' photo Clearing Winter Storm, Ansontsui's Black And White City looks like Margaret Bourke-White's DC-4 Flying Over NYC. Can Vikavalter's hand be connected somehow with Imogen Cunningham, or is it Garydyson's poppies? :) |
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Cleaper
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 12:48:04 PM by Cleaper |
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Hi Ellen- I hadn't guessed on Forgiss image ...but now you have me thinking. Something looks familiar but I am not sure why.... |
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Cleaper
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 12:59:31 PM by Cleaper |
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I give up! I know there is a famous photographer from Mali that focuses on hands and feet but in black and white....so that's out... It's not Barney is it?? That one is going to bug me now until I know the answer.
Vikavalter's image of the B&W hand reminds me for some reason of a Ruth Bernhard but it is much softer. |
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Fcarucci
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Message edited at 05/21/2008, 15:43:54 PM by Fcarucci |
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250246 is beautiful and is inspired by a famous Adam's photograph.
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Boughn
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 17:31:40 PM by Boughn - member is an admin |
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Maigi wins the first correct answer. Yes, the Yosemite image by Egomezta reminds me of Ansel Adams. I have a subway poster in Japanese from Tokyo with Adam's Sunrise over Hernandez. It's funny to see it in that context. |
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Boughn
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 17:32:47 PM by Boughn - member is an admin |
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Ok Cleaper: the photographer whose image Forgiss reminds me of: one more hint: both of the photographer's initial's are 'B" and he is/was of British origin. |
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Cleaper
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Message edited at 05/21/2008, 18:16:24 PM by Cleaper |
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The only one I can think of is Bill Brandt but isn't his work mostly in B&W...he does have images of body parts though?? Oh go on give me another clue! :) Going to take a guess with the black and white image of the woman on teh bed being Imogen Cunningham and the shell being man ray. |
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Cleaper
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 18:14:12 PM by Cleaper |
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Is dbpellegrino's bridge reminding you of Andre Kertesz?? When I got home this evening I knew it looked familiar and it is like an early print I have that has a train on a bridge. |
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Black-white
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Message posted at 05/21/2008, 22:24:23 PM by Black-white |
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Good!
Your next article is expected. |
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Maigi
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Message posted at 05/22/2008, 05:03:02 AM by Maigi |
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Great! I like Adams' work, I have studied a lot of his work and have his guidebook at home.
OK, now I have another guess. Kasia75 seashell seems to be on the cover of a book The Daybooks of Edward Weston, isn't it? |
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Cleaper
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Message posted at 05/22/2008, 06:10:27 AM by Cleaper |
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Miagi - I think you are right about the seashell!! Well done! :) |
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Micspix
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Message posted at 05/22/2008, 06:13:33 AM by Micspix |
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Ellen: Thank you. This blog was quite nteresting to me, as I exhibit and sell "art photos" on the local level, and have been quite happy with the results in the past year or so. The links that you provided will, I'm sure, be most useful. |
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Sorinus
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Message posted at 05/22/2008, 06:56:04 AM by Sorinus |
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I dont want to be mean... but there are not to many downloads on this pictures...
So... art might not sell very well? |
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Tan510jomast
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Message posted at 05/22/2008, 07:47:05 AM by Tan510jomast |
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good article, congrats Ellen.
stock photography is certainly different from art . quite frankly,
my idols (ansel adams, karsh,cartier-bresson) would no doubt never have had sold anything in stock photography .
having been an artistic photographer for ages, and worked freelance to travel all across canada after i graduated from NYI in the 80's, i discovered this almost immediately when i joined this field last month.
my first site rejected 100% of my "artistic photography" and called them "snapshots" lmao . my ego was immensely deflated for 24 hours, lol.
when the "destroyed ego" dust settled (LOL) , i realise the need to separate these two distinctive fields of photography.
so today, i wear two hats... i shoot for stock one day, and the rest of the time, i shoot for myself (artistic).
it's a reality any working photographer must accept.
multimec . cheers Dreamstime team :-) |
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Southernstar71
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Message posted at 05/22/2008, 09:29:31 AM by Southernstar71 |
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To Sorinus: indeed, art does not necessarily mean selling loads (not while you're alive, at least...)
To me, a creation is art from the moment when it generates an emotional response in people that are subjected to it.
I personally prefer art that does make me feel good or that makes my brain work, looking for shapes and patterns in images, but to each his/her own ;-) |
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Sorinus
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Message posted at 05/22/2008, 09:57:08 AM by Sorinus |
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To Southernstar71: do not undestand me wrong i prefer art too... in prefer pictures that create in me an emotion, a felling... It was just a conclusion... I think that we understand that we work in microstock industry and we have to make pictures that sale.... I keep my art pictures for me and for galleries...
And if I could make a living from art photography i will go for it |
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