Photography is a fantastic medium.
Fantastic but it can be misleading when it plays the game of illusion.
I believe the act of
photography is mainly motivated by the role that the image will go to play.
I distinguish 3 major photographic areas depending on the purpose of the image:
Of course these three categories are not static : for intance war photographies (and as horrible they
could be) could also become "commercial" or "ideoligical" in the context it could be used to stimulate patriotic feelings and, in the same time, they could contain ... a certain artistic
concept.
My photographic choices are moving towards the third option: artistic photo. My productions are, I think, largely influenced by my taste for painting,
non-figurative Art and Advertising.
I have read some articles on the concept of visual
reality and now I wonder about the realism of the photographic image (usually credited to him - the problem is
there).
Are there any limitations in the photography editing
process for that a photo finely be ... a photo ? Reading articles on
human vision led me to reflect on the concept of "visual reality" and to wonder about the realism of the photographic picture, realism we usually credited him.
Are there any limits in the picture editing process to keep a photo... as a photo ?
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From my first steps with a camera, there are more than 30 years, I considered that the image captured by the lens and frozen on film picture was not the culmination of the creative photographic process, but on the contrary the starting point for the representation of a more intimate alternative personal symbolic reality,. Trying to draw a parallel with the work on his canvas a painter realized, I would say the image from the shooting is only the simple sketch. Everything (almost) is coming ...
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My "models", my sources of influences :
The vast majority of my images are
retouched. In the past I used various "simple" means "treatment" under the enlarger reconstructions, changes in the
chemistry of development, simple coloring, assemblies, by cutting and
pasting, etc.
Today this creative desire remained the same and digital processing is now more convenient than physical manipulations. Digital tools have made apparently simplest work (by freeing
notte the constraints of chemistry and darkroom) but it offers in the same
time so many possibilities that it becomes very hard to know when it's necessary
to stop action for staying in the best and avoid the worst.
So, as you can see, I often destruy the "photorealism" of mu pictures. Why ? Because it is simply my last priority.
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