Art Photography?

Art photography is an art technique that uses photographs as a tool of the artist, usually a camera. There is also the ability to perform work without the use of photographic apparatus. It involves the use of luxography which implies a direct exposure of photosensitive materials.

There are different types of artistic photography. There are however some basic photography such as conceptual, abstract and surreal, exposing acts of artistic nudity, portraits, however, without the canon of classical portraiture, images of horror and the macabre, and the typically humorous. The division into subcategories photography is really difficult and in fact smoothly because of the wide range of creative topics. Artistic photography is to be primarily non-profit and non-classical.

One of the best in my opinion, the representatives in this discipline is born in 1985, German photographer and sculptor - Karl Blossfeldt. His most celebrated work is the seemingly ordinary herbarium; however his work contains photographs which are breathe taking. The simple presentation of these plants is amazing. In these photographs, plants become monumental sculptures and flowers in normal life are just weak, sensible floras. So each image is a work of art and gives viewer a very unreal reality.

If I would need to go closer into aspects of contemporary photography times, it is all about fun shape and form. The ideal representative of the artistic photography is an American photographer Edward Weston. What is its work charm? He was a creation that is typically exhibited acts of the human body. However, later he decided to do not picture man or a human body. Weston had a very specific style because he photographed mostly shells, peppers and other small forms and focused only on features, detail and form. You cannot call them the usual acts. Fun lighting and shadow, showing every detail but most of all his pictures are very unreal and decorated in black and white. The picture on the right is also connected to fashion photography, but it is also creative at the same time.

Artistic photography is now properly shaped image and abstraction. I cannot be traced in its realism, because it will never completely reflect reality. Focus on form and detail, image distortion or controversial subject matter – this is what makes current art photograph.