MARC RIBAUD: "Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes."
PHOTOGRAPHER'S DIARY: Impressionist painters attempted to paint light. In doing so they softened the firm outline of things and caught the dance of light playing with wind, heat and humidity. In emulating them, early photographers often blurred their images and added a romantic, "artistic" haze. My aim is exactly contrary. The painterliness that draws me to photograph exists in the illuminated subject itself. I seek to bring such subjects into sharp focus in order to better reveal the painterliness of reality. This photo should repay efforts to zoom close; see how the textures of each grass blade has been painted by light and ice.
2 comments:
It is wonderful but I have to say I love impressionist paintings as well.
I never did but since the last 10 years I see the beauty of it.
Better late than never. lol.
I love Impressionist painting as well. It is that love that motivates some of my shooting, but the camera approaches painterliness from an unpainterly medium. If there are to be brush strokes, they must be found in the textures of the thing photographed.
Thanks for your comment.
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