What's in a photo?
Since ancient times, as we know from cave paintings, man has always had a fascination with making marks, a form of expression and a means of communicating news, recording history, a story or just an exercise in creativity which one could sit back and admire. It has always been the case that man needed to communicate and it is innate in man to be creative and to develop his skills to a higher level.
So what’s in a photo? The advent of photography was a revelation as it changed people’s ideas of creating images and made art more accessible to everyone. This in turn changed the way artists worked as hitherto other people's art had only been available to the wealthy who could afford to commission paintings.
For a long time people were content to record themselves on film, replicate well known landscapes or record historical moments as indeed paintings had done for centuries before. However, photography became more creative as people became aware of more techniques.
In the same way the camera changed forever the art world, computers and digital cameras changed photography. We can all become more creative and at relatively little expense in the same way the professionals did before us. Having said that equipment alone cannot do everything and it is only experience that can create that special image.
The impressionist movement in art has had a great influence on the Turner photographs. Landscape photography has been a passion for him and this photo book should testify to the close relationship he has with nature. Many of the photographs have been shot in low lighting conditions which have its own problems but the result is an impression, a snapshot of time.
Image making changes with the seasons -
A series of books as titled above have also been published and each consist of over a hundred pages of colour photographs and some text
