The image I selected for the Juror's Award was by created by Karen Divine. I had seen her images elsewhere, but had no idea that they were created with a cell phone.
Juror's Award image
Born in Texas, Karen is a self-taught photographer, who has attended workshops and studied with a long roster of image makers. She was introduced to photography during a career as a model in NYC, and later discovered the possibilities of Photoshop. "I view the world in layers, stacking colors, textures, forms and stories onto each other as if one were walking through their day with blurred vision, not taking in specifics but piecing together various parts and overlapping them. Images that tell a story are important to me, images that are suggestive, a reflection of one’s inner turmoil and dreams, a personal documentary, images where the boundaries are somewhat obscure. I want to look at an image and be forced to look again and again. A sense of structure and design is important of course but behind my shapes and colors, there is usually another order of meaning, however abstract that may appear."
Karen has created the project featured below, Shooting the Nude, where she explores the idea “Do women shoot the nude with a different vein of intention than the male?” She states, "Being the genesis of the greatest art, I wonder if the viewer of the image perceives the nude differently depending on the gender of its maker! Are we shooting the female form for it’s lines and shapes that make any composition visually appealing or is the image a reflection of our own sensuous or objective being? In answering these questions, I discovered a woman, playful, sinuous, provacative, a bit off in her antics and movements, confident, doubtful but always wanting to present herself in freedom."
iSpy: Camera Phone Photography
3 comments:
I don't own an iPhone either - yet. Althought tempting...
One exception to this description - I don't know if this is so much "stellar examples of technology's newest tool" as mastering the use of Photoshop and image manipulation.
How the images were taken is unimportant and inconsequential- the creativity is accomplished thru software. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
What is a real benefit is that the ability to take photos with such a convenient resource provides a creative outlet for people who wouldn't have thought of it otherwise.
But I still wouldn't consider the iPhone (or any cell phone camera) a new "genre" of photography.
Just my thoughts...
- J.
Good points Jeff!
@ Jeff- How the images were taken is of great consequence. The artist clearly has a different intent with each shot selected. Whether the model is blurred in motion or lit in a certain fashion. Saying that this is merely a magic trick that photoshop created i feel is selling her photographic eye short. This is a common misconception that goes back to analog synths being used by rock bands and critics calling it machine music...Obviously PInk Floyd was creating the music, and history would laugh at such rhetoric. Lets be careful not to overlook intent/talent and give credit where credit is due. Obviously your comments weren't malicious and perhaps im stating the obvious. So please see these comments in a similar tone. Cheers!
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