Silver Gelatin Photographs

Artists Describing Their Art:

Rachel Schneider - Rachel Schneider is an American Photographer well received by the American artistic community. Ms. Schneider's works have been regularly exhibited in galleries throughout the state of Texas. Her academic credentials include 5 years of formal study at Sam Houston State University in Texas as well as training at the Texas School for Professional Photography. Ms. Schneider prefers to photograph in Black and White; however, she also uses color film. Her images yield a very different and crisp vantage point of life. A trained eye will find her images to be high in contrast and highly detailed. When photographing, Ms. Schneider contemplates every technical and artistic aspect of the image in her mind before she even considers pushing the shutter. She believes in finding the subject, determining the tonal values, then taking the picture that completely utilizes the negative's space. Ms. Schneider does not believe in wasting any silver on the negative, and therefore, does not crop her images during the printing process. Critics have noted that her photographic style has the characteristics of Straight Photography and Documentary Photography. Ms. Schneider's portfolio contains images from her travels around the United States, England, Singapore, Tokyo and Malaysia. Her passion ...

Wayne Quilliam - Adjunct Professor Wayne Quilliam is a professional Australian Aboriginal Photographic artist/film maker/cultural advisor working on the international stage. With more than 20 years experience working in all areas of photography including social documentary, sport, tourism, fashion,weddings, movies, event documentation and exhibitions, Wayne is recognised as a leading contemporary in his field. His work is a fusion of traditional spirituality and contemporary photographic processes,each image represents an interpretation of culture in the modern world. His dream is to work with all races of the world and conduct exhibitions in every country....

Reza Khatir - Critical reviews (a selection) ::: "Le fotografie di Khatir sono tessere disperse nello spazio e nel tempo, ricucite tuttavia da un'invisibile regista che e l'ordine del vivere di ogni giorno. Un continuo rimando tra realta e immaginazione per cogliere la vita in tutte le sue sfaccettatura." Rudy Chiappini, "Corriere del Ticino" 6 febbraio1982. "Reza Khatir fuhrt seine personlichen Photographienfast ausschliesslich in farbe und mit polaroidfilmen aller formate aus.Darin beweist er eine besondere Sensibilitat fur die fomgestaltung und farbgebung; seine Bildthemen, die um die Gegensatz paare Verhullung-Enthullung. Andeutung - verwischung,Gegenwart und Erinnerung kreisen, entziehen sich demversuch des betrachter, sie zu fixieren, ob er Kinder, Fraun oder andere Szenerien zeigt, immer sind die Photos leicht surrealistisch verfremdet und spielen mit den Ebenen konkreter Abbildung von Wirklichkeit und gefuhlsmassiger Assoziationen." Urs Stahel, "DU" August 1985. "Diverse solo apparentamente le donne riprese a colori da Khatir in Iran: nel contrasto fra uno sguardo bellissimo e la mano tremante di una mendicante, fra i visi sorridenti delle bambine e quelli urlanti delle manifestanti, fra la ricerca della nitidezza e quella del mosso voluto, ancora si trova l'accostamento di due stili, di due tipi di ...

Corrie Ancone - Artist statement : "I don't care for the certainty of what's in front of my lens, but the creativity, the fantasy, the invention, that can gush from a thought before or thereafter. Between the certain and the uncertain there is a possible space, as in dreams and fables. Heavily influenced by mythology, nature and the techniques and working styles of the early European Dadaists, Impressionists and Baroque artists, my creativity stems from my lust for finding and exploring sympathies between the human body, the landscape and its textures. Oscillating between transparency and opacity, colours and images collide in my work, creating new visual and emotional images, often painterly and somewhat surreal, which affect perceptions of natural reality. This is sometimes described as 'synthetic realism'." Corrie Ancone ...

Bernhard Luettmer - The project is to create the image with a short composition as I wanted at times I took in here. Timing and movements of the camera or the machinery are important resources. Photography is listen to the world as we hear a beloved piece of music. For example: I see a tree just in vegetation, the wind gentle caresses the new leaves, the light shines and you hear all this on the skin. Now take a picture with the knowledge that this concentration and on the negative is something of the feeling....

Peter J Crowley - Thirty five years of seeking the highlight. Thirty five years of self portraits. Visual questions and verbal images. Always asking Why? "How does a visual person define his life and work in words?" The soul of the artist is held in the negatives, every shot is a self portrait." -PJC Why? I have spent the last year or maybe more reflecting on my work over the thirty or so years I have been shooting. It is, at times, surprising and then not surprising at all that the actual images over the last years have been reflections. Why? I will let you know when I am sure. As a young artist there is so much new information to learn and teachers to please. Accepting that an image is cool is enough to make you strive to create more. There is no "Why", just on to the next assignment. At what point do you become an artist? How does one define the soul of an artist? My work, I hope, stimulates thought. I hope that my writing does also. I try not so much to offer answers, but to offer questions. Why? The more often you ask Why, the more you will ...