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...effect and to help people choose the appropriate filters. Read more KAREN THURMAN From Seed to Show, 13.15 Karen will be talking about getting a photographic project from a germ of an idea to an exhibition. Read more THOMAS PECK Utah Rocks!, 13.30 The American West is a photographer’s mecca, especially Utah and Arizona with their canyons both...
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It is a commonplace of photographic analysis to point out that the camera does not see like the eyes see. The mono viewpoint (vs human binocular vision), the limitations of the frame, the ability to freeze movement or conversely to capture expanses of time, black and white – these are all structural/formal elements that belong to the machine of the...
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In a previous article we looked at Alan Hinkes’s photographic depiction of the Sublime. High up in the Himalaya, in the death zone, Hinkes photographed awe-inspiring landscapes, where man was insignificant and puny in the face of massive and indifferent nature. Hinkes, whether consciously or not, was tapping into an artistic genre. In the 17th and 18th centuries artists had...
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...Bison) Along the Lamar River” [p. 33] shows a woman viewing Bison through the window of a Yellowstone Association tour bus. The woman is safely seated behind glass, ironically protecting the animals and herself. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Thomas Moran “The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Thomas Moran,” which hangs in Lobby 2N at the Smithsonian...
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...and Dav Thomas. Issue 24 Gustave Le Gray - Master Photographer One of the pleasures of writing articles for On Landscape is diving deep into different topics. I’ve written a few “Master Photographers,” but one of my favourites was Gustav Le Gray. It was also an excuse to buy a couple of fantastic books. In the same issue, one of...
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...a couple of sections, firstly there is Pete and colleagues who remain represented this year, Dav Thomas, Mark Gould, Chris Upton and Jonathan Horrocks (Chris Upton has a gallery with Pete at the Patchings Art Centre), then there are the celebrities - David Noton, who is the master 'Master' and also two magazine editors, Steve Watkins (who is editor of...
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March 2011 Workshop Participants incl. John Blakemore A couple of weeks ago I went on a workshop, a workshop that continues a series that started in the early 1980s and that have along the way have had photographers such as Fay Godwin, Lewis Baltz, John Blakemore, Aaron Siskind, Paul Caponigro, Martin Parr, Thomas Joshua Coooper and Cole Weston as leaders....
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...Dav Thomas... You make your living as a graphic designer but I believe you started out on an Illustration degree? Throughout my school years, I always remember having a passion, and a certain amount a talent, for drawing and painting. This eventually led me to start a degree course in illustration at the Hull College of Art. Unfortunately, the course...
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...of Dav Thomas’ Sony A900 with my Canon 5Dmk2, and saw similar differences in colour that looks ‘uncorrectable’ (I’ve never been completely happy with some of the colour from the 5DMkII - preferring my old 5D by a bit and Dav’s A900 by a lot), Obviously being a complete geek I had to work out what was happening and so...
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...‘what’. It was before the internet, before the digital revolution, and certainly before the advent of social media. My very first weekend at Glasgow School of Art in 1982 was spent on a photographic field trip to Culzean Castle, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. It was there that I first met Thomas Joshua Cooper, who headed up the Fine...
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