Catherine Ledner

Glamour Dogs













also check out the other animals, they are all good but I can't post them all!!

John Divola

from the series "running from camera"










a few older ones as well from as far as I could get.






The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.

--John Divola

Erik Johansson

One last post along the lines of manipulated imagery...


There was something about the tulips


Strange forest


Road workers coffee break


Homosapies

Maggie Taylor

It's only fitting to give Maggie Taylor, Uelsmann's wife, a post as well. Uelsmann quite literally inspired many aspects of Photoshop. He was offered a chance to be one of the first to explore with Photoshop artistically, but he refused to work digitally. Instead Maggie Taylor tried it out, and her images are very interesting as well. I love the olde photograph quality, mixed with the surreal images.

Quite the couple, eh?








"Making images for me is a way of life. I can't imagine not doing it... I guess in terms of what motivates me, the best answer would be, if I don't make images I'm unhappy.

--Maggie Taylor

Jerry Uelsmann

This is a long overdue post, because Uelsmann is just one of those all time classics. I never was fond of his images, but the process was always beautiful to me. Uelsman used multiple enlargers and printed multiple negatives into one image in the darkroom, merging them seamlessly.

Like I said, I was never big on the images, but these two made my jaw drop, literally. Maybe it's just my own taste, and love for human v. nature concepts in art, but I think these are stunning!!






My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people. For me to walk around the block where I live could take 5 minutes. But when I have a camera, it could take five hours. You just engage in the world differently. If you can get to a point where you respond emotionally, not intellectually, with your camera there’s a whole world to encounter. There’s a lot of source material once you have the freedom of not having to complete an image at the camera.

--Jerry Uelsmann

Bert Monroy

It's been a while, but I've been massively busy. I've got tons of artist to share, so hold tight.

You'll have to see this one to believe it...




it may look like a random snap of a Chicago train platform... but it was ALL created by drawing in Photoshop...




Dude has some mad photoshop skills...

"Creating What You See"
As a photo-realist painter, I have often been asked why I don’t just take a photograph. Good question, when you consider my paintings look like photographs. Well, for one thing, I’m not a photographer. To me, it is not the destination that is important—it is the journey.
The incredible challenge of recreating reality is my motivation

--Bert Monroy

Ruang MES 56

Where would you rather be?
There's something exciting, and something eerie about how digital manipulation of images can create events that never happened, even mundane things that aren't real.







The emerging of Digital technology as if an ironic progress for the photography world, especially to its ability to change, add and even “create” the event.