My recent post, Art and Rebellion, drew some impassioned responses from several readers, both on and off the blog. Several responders took offense to my thoughts on found beauty and its artistic merit. The theme for the post, however, was not the value of found beauty but the idea that producing beautiful images is considered [...]
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“… try for that other world, the real world, where orphans burn orphans and nothing is more difficult to discover than a simple fact. And with that pride of the artist, you must blow against the wall of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.” (Norman Mailer) It appears I have committed [...]
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In my book Creative Landscape Photography, I introduce a framework for creative image-making relying on six phases. The premise is that all images begin with a Concept: a nebulous, amorphous “trigger” that sets the creative process in motion. The concept may be a thought, an emotion, a response, or a sensation that the artist experiences [...]
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