Artist Information:
Stuart Haden
Hitchin,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Apr 2006
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Artist Statement:
I am searching for new
subjects and innovative ways
of expressing them. How the
subjects look within the frame
interests me. I want to make
beautiful photographs which
are balanced, simple,
surprising and more meaningful
than the collection of facts
the camera describes.
There are two main types of
photography ...
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Stuart Haden's Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Stuart Haden's Portfolio.
I am searching for new subjects and innovative ways of expressing them. How the subjects look within the frame interests me. I want to make beautiful photographs which are balanced, simple, surprising and more meaningful than the collection of facts the camera describes.
There are two main types of photography that exist. John Szarkowski, the past Curator of the Museum of Modern Art Photography Collection divided photography into Mirrors and Windows and wrote a book about it. Self expression exemplified by Mirrors and exploration exemplified by Windows are broadly how Szarkowski divides the practice of photograhy. I prefer the Window type of photography. This is the photography practiced by Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Cartier- Bresson, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Sebastiao Salgado, William Eggleston, Robert Adams, Jan Groover, Joel Meyerowitz and Stephen Shore. I am a Window or realist type photographer and I study these master photographers.
The seven characteristics of my kind of photography are:
1. It deals with the real world. David Bailey said: “It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; ... |
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