Dusk at The Artist Enclave in East Haddam Ct. A storm is coming. B + W silver gelatin print.
Low Key Figure silver gelatin print on warm tone paper.
When you have finished manipulation? Do you ever finish manipulation when is the piece finished? When is it Art?
Manipulation isn’t new this image is a study of a pregnant women. Shot on 35mm film at ISO 1600 to gain more grain and texture. It was then printed onto a sheet of 4×5 film giving me a positive image, then contact printed on to a 4×5 sheet of litho film [high contrast film used in the printing industry]this film sees just Black and White and adds more texture and grain. Many steps that I decided on while shooting the original negative in very contrasty studio light. When did it become Photographic Art?
What are your thoughts? When Does an image become Art? peace pjc
Art, as you seem to suggest in this post, is subjective and you certainly have photographic art in my opinion and yet these images here are quite different from one of my own \’Abstract Portrature\’. Link above.
The process in your images in this post are, I think, the point at which the images *become* art, although, as with myself, the \’art\’ itself is derived from the mind.
People could also ask the question \’when is a picture taken?\’. Technologically, when the camera shutter button is pressed, artistically? well, if an answer can be sought to \’when does and image become art\’ then perhaps we might understand which art is an image.
A very nice bw!
It is an individual perception . Anything which appeals to senses , generates emotions and displays simplicity in depicting artists complex sensibilities at the time of creation of the piece of art..
Roland,
Thank you for seeing through my poor scanning.
Atul, you nailed it \”It is an individual perception\” etc.
Jason,
I too develop the the image in my mind as the pregnant woman last image in the post I knew what i wanted before I even found the subject. i really like your abstract portrait but not the way it is displayed. As a horizontal image the first way it is presented I don\’t see it but once I look here \”View proper ratio size here.\” I love it I wonder if you are missing your audience by not showing the image in the proper ratio size. \”When is the picture taken\” when it is conceived in the artists mind.
Why Pikes Place? Having just moved to Washington and from visits to my daughter and to teach prior to moving here there is a very famous place in Seattle called Pikes Place Market. peace pjc