Back in the 1830s, you had to be a highly trained craftsman to be a photographer. Whether you were shooting Daguerreotypes or using wet plates, creating a photograph was difficult and technologically demanding. The transition to dry plate technology helped to simplify the process, but photography was still an undertaking for specialists. Then film was… Read More THE IMPACT OF PHOTO TECHNOLOGY
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work,” Woody Allen once said. “I want to achieve it by not dying.” Artists usually want their work to live on after them, to become part of the culture and be appreciated by future generations. The problem is that you can’t be around to experience this. Vincent… Read More IMMORTALITY THROUGH ART
Anyone who has followed the history of fashion knows that what is “in style” and popular changes constantly. This is true of the clothing, shoes, hats and other products that designers create, and it’s true for fashion photography as well. The kind of photos that the fashion industry prefers is highly variable. The photos change… Read More FASHION IS FLEETING
In this digital, Internet age – where hundreds of thousands of pictures are uploaded every day – it becomes extremely important in marketing a product, service or career to use photographs that have impact and are memorable – that stick in the mind and become part of the viewer’s consciousness. Repetition helps in achieving this,… Read More PHOTOS THAT “STICK IN THE MIND”
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