Early 20th Century Fine Art Photography/F64

I found this contemporary photograph by a Dallas, Texas photographer - David Kozlowski. This photo is titled "Butte Sedona Oak Creek Canyon Landscape". When I came across it, it reminded me of Ansel Adams. David blends multiple exposures, color tones and saturation. This picture shows sharpness (depth of field) exactly the style of the P64 photographers, the opposite of pictorialism. Only difference is this photograph was most likely taken by a digital SLR, but shows the art of photography and how history influences contemporary work today.

Photography and Art.

I believe this is a really interesting topic. I can understand all the different views when it comes to photography and it being fine art. Photography has definitely changed since the 1920's due to digital. Digital allows almost anyone to try and become a photographer. Now many do not have an eye for it and it shows in their work but almost anyone can attempt becoming a photographer with digital cameras and editing techniques making it so much easier to learn vs how things were done in the early 1900's. Digital offers exceptional image quality and creative flexibility. I agree with Gopnik where he states are there new ways on making a photo fancy, the way they were done with Adams or Avedon. We do tend to see more repetition of photography work today vs. the 1800 and 1900's. Photography today is an equal opportunity art form, I see so many images, a wide variety of images that are in exhibits and used for magazines and commercial work almost as if its so easy to accomplish. Below I chose this image as a fine art image. It only differs from the early 1900's with it being color and having a high resolution. Like the early 1900's it still has that peaceful landscape scene, that many photographers captured back then that was considered a form of art.

Exploration/Landscape

This photo won an award as the habitat winner with the British Wildlife Photography Awards. The photographer is Ben Hall and the title of the photograph is "Fallow buck at dawn".

Capturing this moment in the dawn with the deer is just amazing. There is just a little light shining down with an opening gap from the trees that lead your eyes right down to the deer. This shows what a peaceful environment can be like in the morning when exploring a habitat. It shows the beauty of nature in the woods. The golden colors give this image a warm feel and to me that is what makes it innovative. We often see black and white, and colors. The landscaping around the subject gives the image a fullness. This image was well deserved for an award .