Photography, Photo Education, For Teachers and Learners.

More than thirty years of teaching photography and art should have taught me a few things.

A good teacher is also a good student. I may have interesting images and thoughts to share

Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Constructed Image



The photo can be a constructed image, put together with props, background, and lighting. I have been working on several constructed images, one theme being bubbles. What interest me is there fragility and transient nature. They last but seconds and can be gone before they are fully created. Bubbles are beautiful in their symmetry. I often take real things and make them un-real because of  their visual  or psychological
context. This is one of the approaches I took with the bubble pictures. This results in a puzzle the viewer must solve. Its a game to create an aesthetic with the known that becomes un-known. Art should excite, challenge, touch your psyche, hart, or make you question.