I first encountered Misrach’s work on the Tom Ford film Nocturnal Animals, a difficult watch if you haven’t seen it, even if it is brilliant. It raises questions around our relationship with the land that we live and work on and our desire to see beauty in the extraordinary rather than the everyday.
I’m intrigued how these images force us to consider the relationship between the typically aesthetically pleasing and the dirt on which it stands. The periscope then projects the image of the outside world onto the floor and he photographs the floor, simultaneously capturing the scenery and the land on which it stands. He points the periscope (at the top of the tent) at the scene he wishes to photograph.
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So what are we looking at? Morell has essentially created a portable camera obscura. Morell’s work opens this blog post because he pretty much invented a new process in order to take these pictures, sure the camera obscura isn’t new, but he is completely re-imagining landscape photography and asking the viewer to reconsider what we know about image making. But like many immigrants, I felt moved to explore the vastness of my adopted country.” “I have always loved The 19th Century photographs of the American West, but when I had a commission to photograph these landscapes anew, the work of the old masters daunted me-so much so that, for a long time, I couldn’t imagine how I would approach making landscape images myself.
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1948, Morell immigrated to America in 1962. What better place to start than Abelardo Morell and his tent camera landscape photographs. To start any list you’re going to want heavy hitters to keep the reader interested, am I right? Hopefully you’re not bored already.Īs I specified in the opening paragraphs, my intention is to introduce photographers who you may not have encountered, and challenge what it is to be a landscape photographer. This list is by no means in any rank order – Enjoy! Are the images merely pretty pictures you would put on your wall, or do they challenge you to rethink your approach? How might your own landscape photography improve or diversify if you approached taking pictures with a question in mind? Questions such as How do people interact with the landscape? How has mankind shaped the land? or What constitutes a landscape? I’ve always loved the adage ‘good design says the same thing to everyone, good art says something different to everyone’, I ask you to explore the works in this blog post and ask yourself what they say to you. This is why I’ve chosen to include photographers who not only take attractive pictures, but those that approach the genre from a conceptual and sometimes philosophical view. My intention is not to create carbon copied content from other blogs, but to challenge the reader and ask them to explore images outside of their usual scope. You may not agree, but hey, if there’s any glaring omissions, drop them in the comments, I still love learning. The camera is ultimately a tool, how it is used is up to the practitioner, in which case, I present to you a mixture of photographers who I consider to be the best landscape photographers of all time.
Dodging and burning, tilt shifting bellows – arguably the mere act of ‘composing’ excludes certain parts of the frame and is an act of manipulation for aesthetic purposes.
I find myself returning to the argument that photographers have used manipulation of sorts since the dawn of photography. When does a photograph become digital art? Is HDR (high dynamic range) acceptable? The conversation rages on.
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Rightly so, it’s easy to make your mistakes without upsetting anyone, plus you get to travel!ĭigital manipulation is very much a part of contemporary landscape photography, which makes creating a list such as this challenging to say the least. All you need is a camera, a landscape (maybe a tripod), and you’re on your way! An immensely popular sub genre of photography, it’s often where photographers start. 11 Best Landscape Photographers Of All Time
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