Fine Art Photographer
New image from Layered Life series.
Art on the streets, in the windows, in my mind. Beginning to settle into my new virtual life here on the left coast. Cold with snow the night before last just a dusting. It isn’t New England but still I hate the cold and damp. When is spring and warm rain? The locals have a saying “What is two days of rain? A weekend! enjoy pjc
Dusk at The Artist Enclave in East Haddam Ct. A storm is coming. B + W silver gelatin print.
Low Key Figure silver gelatin print on warm tone paper.
When you have finished manipulation? Do you ever finish manipulation when is the piece finished? When is it Art?
Manipulation isn’t new this image is a study of a pregnant women. Shot on 35mm film at ISO 1600 to gain more grain and texture. It was then printed onto a sheet of 4×5 film giving me a positive image, then contact printed on to a 4×5 sheet of litho film [high contrast film used in the printing industry]this film sees just Black and White and adds more texture and grain. Many steps that I decided on while shooting the original negative in very contrasty studio light. When did it become Photographic Art?
What are your thoughts? When Does an image become Art? peace pjc
The sun does shine in WA. A walk on one such day early Nov walking back from the market.