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Photography has become so advanced, it's hard to tell if an image is real or not. But, is an unedited picture still real? Lighting and colours can manipulated as the picture is taken as well as the perspective.
Lighting plays a crucial role in photography. Without light there is no illumination. It can bring a photograph to life. It can generate effects, including spectacular shadows and silhouettes.
Lighting determines not only darkness or brightness but also tone, mood and atmosphere. Therefore it is necessary to control and manipulate light correctly in order to get the best texture, vibrancy of colour and luminosity of the subject. Without good light, even the most compelling subject wonโt make for an interesting photograph.
Some photographers that use lighting in an interesting way:
Rinko Kawauchi - Illuminance.
The lighting in her images is extremely beautiful, some images are softer, whereas others are harsher. But the harshly lit images are done so beautifully, you don't notice the over exposed sections as it completes the image.
Christian Patterson - RedHeaded Peckerwood.
RedHeaded Peckerwood is bases on a chain of events surrounding 1950โs teen serial-killing duo Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. The images within the book are a mixture of his own images, graphic text, and images from the crimes committed.
In Redheaded Peckerwood Christian Patterson is working out something that hasnโt been done much before, if ever: a kind of subjective documentary photography of the historical past. That requires that the individual pictures be true, as close as possible to the physical details as historically established, while remaining ambiguous and unsettling โ because each of them is only an aspect of the story, and because in each of them something is wrong. The accumulation of them, meanwhile, is what thrusts the viewer into the emotional center of the story, in a way you could call novelistic. While each individual photograph pulses, sometimes alarmingly, all by itself, the meaning of the whole only coheres when all of its parts and all the subliminal connections between them have been fully absorbed, a process which takes time and perhaps distance. Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land.
โ Luc Sante, Essay from Redheaded Peckerwood
Vanessa Winship - She Dances on Jackson.
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Presentation is also a big part of photography. Some artists who are creative when it comes to presenting their work:
Tereza Zelenkova.
Lorna Simpson - โUnanswerableโ at Hauser & Wirth London.
Lorna Simpson works with a range of media , one of her works 'Unanswerable' focuses on fire and ice and is a mixture of paint, ink and photography.
Felicity Hammond.
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