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The Hollywood Sign is an international icon that is recognized by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It symbolizes not only Hollywood, it also embodies people's perception of California, the film and entertainment industries and the dreams of everyone who has enjoyed movies and television
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I am a working society photographer with a keen interest in the relationships between people. My attention is further drawn by the notion that inanimate objects can be positioned in such a way as to give the appearance of real relationships. That allows viewers to project whatever voyeuristic, sentimental or other imaginary experience they want onto the objects - in this case, toys.
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I have been a photographer for more than 20 years. My first love was black & white photography but have had a resurgence in inspiration with digital imagery - spurred on by the convergence of price and quality. Art is essential to me and I enjoy anything new. There is so much to learn and share I find the hardest part can be focusing on and exploring what really interests me, and not waste time on the shrinking world's infinite distractions.
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This work is an attempt at repurposing classical photographic maxims, intersecting them tangentially with semiotics and art history - and seeing if the result is interesting. I am using the same gear as photojournalists, not that this is important in itself, but in the sense that I am working with the same constraints as these photographers. I am in that geographical location at that time of conflict, not that this in itself is important either, other than that I am working with the same subject. This is an attempt to generate a different reaction to the representation of an event, in that these images function simultaneously as a photojournalistic representation of the event and as a photographic representation of photojournalism.
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illustration
With my works, I want to make people aware of the hum they hear in the back of their heads. This soft buzzing sound emitted by plastic and neon, dulled by infomercials. Change is good.
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I like to use the paintings' codes, light, composition and subjects in a contemporary context to try to approach an illustrated rendering. I work with a Canon 350D camera, working at kind of small installations to take photos of them. I Like to mix genres and techniques of different periods of history.
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I shoot day laborers, stoned rappers, Cuban grandpas, Russian models, and Ani Difranco. I concentrate on portraiture; within hyperreal studio settings as well as on sidewalks, abandoned buildings, my backyard. Im an Editor and a shooter, and the two skills symbiotically inform each other. Ive worked with drug addicts and beauty queens, and the two subjects often have visual similarities.The most beautiful woman I have ever shot was a granny from Valencia, Spain who kept trying to feed me potatoes while hiding her wrinkled hands.
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I enjoy driving the emerging art form of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography forward. There are some of us that see the world in HDR and are acutely aware of the patchwork scene our constantly dilating iris creates in the mind. HDR allows those tones to be recreated in a single photograph to evoke a dream-like and strangely satisfying reproduction of the scene as it was meant to be experienced.
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digital
Technology is ubik in our lives, dig it? Rather than balk at our impending mechanization at the hands of innocuous electronics, I choose to celebrate it. Some may look down upon my situating the gadgets we all covet above friends and neighbors, but those are the squares that will also tell you humanity is worth saving. So get hep to the scene already and embrace the bits and the bytes because they're the wave of the future and I'm already hanging ten. Later, alligator.
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Markus Hartel developed his love for photography when he was a kid. His grandma used to give him her old rangefinder camera to snap family photos. Over the years, he developed the necessary technical skills for serious photography and fell in love with street photography when he moved to New York in 2003. Ever since then, he walks the streets of the city and photographs little scenes that you would only recognize subconsciously; he happens to be there and captures the mood in a fraction of a second. He freezes a moment that you will forget in the same amount of time.
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I'm curious about the lives of other people, so I make photography of strangers that I hope invokes open-ended narrative possibilities for the viewer's imagination about the subject.
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drawing
Mary Cassidy is a born and bred Jersey artist who enjoys the little things. Easily entertained and willing to share a laugh. She studied illustration and graphic design in Philadelphia and is still hanging on to her traditional drawing roots. She surfed the wave of .bombs and held on to her skills hoping one day a tidal wave of work would come her way. Her blend of traditional and computer design have put her above the button pushing industry of today. Mary likes to live art. Photos, computer graphics, and sketching keep her busy. During the day Mary works for a printing company creating print and web design. She is hoping one day PC and MAC will unite.
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I take photographs of the pieces of life that amaze me. Usually those subjects are the often-overlooked places of insignificance; simple objects passed by every day; or the dynamics and relationships that comprise our human experience. I can't determine what I'm going to photograph next, I only know that it will be something that I can't get out of my head, and I aim to have my photos show why.
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I like to explore the little corners that are shunned by others. I like to keep my mind empty when I shoot, and capture what I see in the most instinctive and spontaneous way. My compositions are usually devoid of humans, but carry strong traces of human activity. My greatest gift is the ability to see beauty everywhere and I try to share this beauty with others by freezing it and framing it with a camera.
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Eric M. Townsend is an emerging young photographer whose work has graced the pages of SPIN, the Village Voice, and Guitar World; he has photographed everyone from Coldplay to Donald Trump (sort of weird, we'll explain later). He hails from upstate NY and has a deep love for music, photography and most small animals. Raised on classic rock in front of his family's four (yes that's a lot of angles) Canon AE-1 cameras and captured in all the splendor of Kodak's latest 200 ISO films, he is on a mission to return his family's photographic skills to the outside world so they may flourish amongst the pages of major magazines and CD covers.
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Gene Smirnov is a Philadelphia music and portrait photographer. A complete failure to play a guitar when he was 12 and love for music kept him in the industry as a hungry observer. One time he was asked to photograph a friend's band (we know that story). He has been happy taking pictures ever since.
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I primarily take pictures of narratives - fictional people in a fictional environment. I love lighting and use it to shape the emotion of the image. I think the frame and environment are just as important as the subject itself, and I spend far more time preparing for a shoot than actually shooting. I shoot the moment right before the ending of a story because that is when there is the most tension.
photography
i am a new york-based freelancer available for work. my work is inspired by the humorous, the unusual, and the bold.
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photography
Timothy Eugene O'Tower, a fictional exploration photographer, is a way of framing the work and push the elements of fiction and simulacra. This character is the heroic individualist people imagine photographers to continue to be today.
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