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“A History of Women Photographers” Book Review
8, Feb 2012A Great Book About Women Photographers
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Photography is a way of seeing with a third eye, of looking at that which is not before you. Who has not spent a part of their youth, chopping and gluing with stubby fingers images from National Geographic? Reassembling these strange pictures, we created panoramas in dreamtime. [...]
The Architectural Photography of Filip Dujardin
6, Dec 2011Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin has an eye for interesting architectural structures. Having studied art history and architecture at the University of Ghent, it is no surprise.
Here are some samples of his work:
- In: Architecture|Photography
- Tags: Architecture, Filip Dujardin, Photography
Lewis Blackwell’s “Photo Wisdom” Book Review
11, Nov 2011Lewis Blackwell’s Photo Wisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art
By Lorette C. Luzajic
What strikes me first is the colour, a brilliant turquoise offset by a wide arc of pale and feathery purple and white ripples. It takes a few seconds to make sense of what is happening, of the giant elephant splayed out across the middle [...]
Unicredit Art Presents “People & the City” Exhibit at Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod
10, Nov 2011In the Red Hall of Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, visitors will have the possibility to admire 80 works from the rich Unicredit Art collection, (a project by the Scientific Commission UniCredit for Art), that highlight the relationship between people and city, starting from the XX century. The exhibit reflects a real international artistic survey which uses the city [...]
Amazing Graves
14, Oct 2011Amazing Graves
by Lorette C. Luzajic
The cemetery may seem an unlikely place to find tranquility, but I’m not alone in seeking serenity in the quietude of death. There seems to be no more elegant way of confronting the stark and solemn truth about ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Whether one said goodbye in the natural [...]
- In: News|Photography
- Tags: cemetery, graves, headstones, Photography
A Painter’s Ode to Autumn
21, Sep 2011A Painter’s Ode to Autumn
By Lorette C. Luzajic
All around me, collective sighs sound a sad farewell to summer. But the second that the inferno-tinged air turns crisp under the sunlight, I come alive.
Photo by Daniel Medalie
I love everything about fall, from September’s grandiose Vogue extravaganza issue, to the crackle of tumbled leaves underfoot, to the [...]
Photography: Lola Alvarez Bravo
23, Aug 2011Lola Alvarez Bravo
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Most photographers are known for mastery of a particular aspect of the art – lighting, composition, subject matter, style and design, creativity, perspective, portraits, and so forth. When a photographer’s strength is every one of these, you have the formidable Mexican Lola Alvarez Bravo.
For fifty years, Lola took pictures of [...]
- In: Artist Spotlight|News|Photography
- Tags: Lola Alvarez Bravo, Photography
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