In the 1960s my parents, Charlie and Martha, loaded my brother Jeff and I into a station wagon with a rear-facing seat and drove Route 66 to California's Disneyland. The park was eight years old when we arrived–coincidentally, the same age I was. The post Notes from the Magic Kingdom appeared first on Arkansas Momentos .
Hunter’s Home, Tahlequah OK - Seroco Camera (1904) using historically correct hand-coated, dry plate film on glass, and original film holders. The post Hunter s Home Jennie Ross Cobb appeared first on Arkansas Momentos .
Giving images impact, outside the camera, has a long history in photography and publication of photographs. By 1991 and the release of Photoshop version 1.0, airbrush, oil paint, litho films, and other retouching tools were crushed by computer rendering and digital manipulation. Above actor Humphrey Bogart has his hand-bearing cigarette removed for a film still advertising the 1949 Columbia…
While composite imagery had been practiced before 1900, and the darkroom mastery of Jerry Uelsman stood almost without equal in the 1970s, influencing the decade of the 1980s was the staged and composited photographs of an Canadian artist named Jeff Wall and Buffalo NY photographer Cindy Sherman. Ten years later the arrival of Photoshop version number 1 would begin the crush of analogue methods…
The search for color in fine art photography found early forms in dye sublimation prints made from Cibachrome - like "Sam's" by Patty Carroll from her 1980's series on Chicago Hot Dog stands. The post The Elevation of Color (1976) appeared first on Arkansas Momentos .
Edward Weston - F64 revolution photographer seeking detail above pictorial illusion. The post f/64 Revolution in Focus appeared first on Arkansas Momentos .