ASHER FELLIG'S invaluable contribution to the art of photography, or scandalous Viji
"My name is Viji. I am the greatest photographer in the world ..." Asher Fellig was born at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the town of…

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What is conceptual photography?
Here is the first example, a photograph of Jeff Wall, which everyone knows, including because Hokusai is here, plus the familiar Bresson “decisive moment” and the plot-photo story that unfolds…

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Photography as a form of art
At the time of the birth of photography, aesthetics were dominated by the belief that only man-made work can be art. The image of reality obtained using technical physicochemical methods…

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Features of composition and documentary

Despite the expansion of the scope of application of photography to various fields of artistic culture, applied arts and information itself, it now no less needs a set of rules for aesthetized construction of photographs. The composition of photography as an initial course is studied by both photographers and future film and television cameramen. Students and amateur photographers drew a lot of valuable necessary at this stage of preparation from the widespread manuals on composition and other creative principles of photography. Continue reading

Crop and fragment the image

Image cropping is a purely photographic principle, determined by the specific features of the photocomposition, and methods of constructing a photographic space. The device’s lens more or less mechanically “cuts out” a certain sector from the unlimited space of nature. No matter how consciously and deliberately the borders of the frame and the location of the graphic elements in its field are chosen, this does not cancel the principle of fragmentation of nature. On the contrary, it is the photographer’s creative attention to the structure and boundaries of the frame that prompts him to isolate a fragment by the composition method. Continue reading

Aesthetics pictures

One of the very important qualities of photography for the development of modern visual culture was the relative ease of obtaining a more or less benign picture, the simplicity of the initial skills that a beginner needed to master. And therefore, with the invention of photography, and especially with the spread of portable and easy-to-use narrow-film devices, the number of images created in the world began to grow like an avalanche. Photography has become the main visual medium of modern culture, pushing painting and graphics, on the one hand, into relatively narrow areas of “pure” art, and on the other – into specialized areas of technical drawing. Continue reading

Photography and art
The value of photography as a chemical way of accurately capturing any visual objects is truly enormous in modern cultural life. Neither science is infinitely large - astronomy or astrophysics,…

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Photo for memory, Or why it is important to keep old pictures
Surely every family has photo albums with old family photographs that gather dust somewhere in cupboards, on mezzanines. Someone decides to simply throw them away to make way, and someone…

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GUY BOURDEN - PROVOCATIVE GENIUS FASHION-SHooting
Photos on the pages of glossy magazines that can be seen today are similar to each other. They are not distinguished by the complexity of the frame. Other were the…

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