Art Photography

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The word art makes me feel as if anyone can express themselves. If its through drawing, painting, dancing or even photography, you can escape into your own world and express the way your feeling in that moment. You can also express the side of you that no one else sees. You can be a as creative as you want.


Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict.
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Sarah Pickering is a London based, British photographer who graduated from the Royal College of Art with a MA in Photography in 2005. She has been the recipient of several awards including the Photographers Gallery Graduate Award and a Jerwood Award in 2005.  Sarah has exhibited internationally and in the UK where her work was part of How We Are: Photographing Britain, at Tate Britain.
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Michael Wolf is a German contemporary artist and photographer born in 1954. In a diverse array of photographic projects Michael Wolf explores the complex cultural identities of China and Hong Kong, where he has lived since 1995. Wolf delves into subjects such as the formal and improvisational aesthetics of Hong Kong's architectural forms, the often-overlooked human presence at the heart of international industry, and the idiosyncratic ways city-dwellers shape their surroundings in an "organic metropolis."
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Conceptual photography

Conceptual photography  often involves use of computer editing, to achieve the desired effects, but a lot of artists are working without the computer, they "put in place" the things and the beings will be the subject of the final photograph, and the placement of those things and beings "build" the concept, the idea, and the final outcome.


The photographers we had seen in the galleries all had different concepts on there pictures. I didn't understand why they took there picture or what they were trying to portray through them. Yet they were very beautiful pieces of work, all showing different meanings and moods.

Context

Art photography contains many different contexts, such as style, texture, quality and many other things. The background of the picture can vary aswell, different people can feel different emotions/feelings from each picture.

Techniques

In art photography the photographer mainly use computer effects to make something seem more surreal then it already is. They manipulate the pictures to create mind games within the picture, make people confused by just looking at it. They can also make the colours on the picture seem more intense or like a painting.