Walter Beckham Photography USA

Fine art large format photography that includes urban and rural views, portraits, nudes, botanicals, and architecture. For me, making pictures is like seeing something magical in the mundane. I usually photograph places and things that are near and familiar a studio portrait of a friend, a botanical in the back-yard, a rural cityscape or landscape in mid-Alabama that I passed through as a child with my Dad, or maybe just a downtown view of some portion of an old building. What I m particularly interested in is the Common Place and those wonderful instances where mystery seems to lie in wait, present or at least seems present when I am observing it closely. Like the mystery and magic of the cigar box that Scout opens in the beginning of To Kill A Mockingbird . She opens that drab little box as she hums in that delightfully sweet way and reveals all those familiar and seemingly mundane trinkets and suddenly the contents and the box itself become extraordinary and very important. The 8x10 and 8x20 view cameras aid in that magic and mystery because the ground glass reveals details in the world very clearly, both near and far. Sometimes, it seems that the camera can capture textures and tones that go unnoticed in direct observations. We can t see all that the camera can see. We are distracted by color, shape, distance and a myriad of other things. But the camera sees it and solidifies it so that all those subtle nuances are exquisitely preserved on that fragile, oversized piece...

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Fotomontagen â Avantgarde in Politik und Medien? Andres - Rutgers

U.S. S .T.E L .L.U .N. G.E. N. . ... DE-Köln Fotomontage â Av a n t g a rde in Politik und Medien? ..... P Miescher, Giorgio, et al. ... Fine Art Printing für Fotografen.

http://rutgers.academia.edu/AndresZervigon/Papers/599420/Fotomontagen_-_Avantgarde_in_Politik_und_Me...