Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic equipment & techniques
|
Buy Now
Lightstream (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R759
Discovery Miles 7 590
|
|
Lightstream (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
Lightstream represents Nigel Grierson's most recent foray into
photographic abstraction as he makes long exposures of figures
beside the light of the ocean. Taking the maxim from Dieter Appelt
"A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure
(creates) a form that never existed", Grierson makes beautiful
images, which on the surface might appear to owe as much to the
medium of painting as they do to photography. However, it is
important to him that these are un-manipulated images straight from
the camera: "From the outset, my work has been largely about
'photographic seeing' as I'm fascinated by what Garry Winogrand so
simply described as 'how something looks when photographed'. Hence,
a sense of discovery within the work itself is very important to
me; finding something new that I didn't already know. There's a
huge element of 'chance, and the embrace of the happy accident
within this approach, which is a sort of photographic equivalent of
action painting. I'm often more interested in what something
suggests rather than what it actually is, each image becoming a
starting point for our imagination as it edges towards
abstraction". Yet what is unique about photography is that it
always keeps something of the original subject. So there's a
dynamic duality, a dramatic to and fro in the viewer's mind,
between what it is and what it suggests. The marks and traces
created by the moving light, at times have a simplicity like a
child's drawings. On occasion, the residue of a human figure might
be reduced to little more than their posture or demeanor, which
then seems more significant than ever, a sort of essence, whether
that be elusive or illusive.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.