These photos from Adam Fuss use a pinhole camera to focus on ripples in water. The pictures can seem very abstract because of there sharp detail and unique lighting.the positive and negative space as well as the rule of thirds the pictures follow help guide the viewers eye and keep their attention.
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Adam Fuss is a contemporary British photographer. Known for his ethereal images created using a photogram technique in which objects are placed directly on light-sensitive painter, Fuss achieves a poetic sense of detachment and wonder throughout his work. “I would much prefer people looked at my photographs as if they were paintings,” he once said. “Because when we look at paintings we look only at the image; we experience it. Somehow when people look at photographs they want an answer to a question that they feel can be answered through technical information.” He was born in 1961 in London, England but grew up mostly in Australia, and in 1980 he began working as a photographic apprentice at the Ogilvy & Mather Agency. Two years later, he moved to New York and began experimenting with a pinhole camera. By 1985, he was showing these works at Massimo Audiello’s gallery where they were met with critical acclaim. In 2000, he was awarded the 16th Annual Award for Art from the International Center of Photography, and he has shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the FotoMuseum in Winterthur, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. He lives and works in New York, NY.
from http://www.artnet.com/artists/adam-fuss/ |
Adams, Ansel (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a wealthy timber baron, Adams grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. When Adams was only four, an aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, distinctly marking him for life. A year later the family fortune collapsed in the financial panic of 1907, and Adams’s father spent the rest of his life doggedly but fruitlessly attempting to recoup.
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