Photo-Impressionism
This is an update of a project that I started back in December. Over that time, I have experimented a lot within this series, and I think that the approach that I have arrived at has finally evolved into something pretty interesting. Currently, I am engineering and building a device that would give me better mobility for when I take these pictures. In terms of the process, these images are not the result of photochopping; they look almost exactly this way straight out of the camera. The only post-processing that I do is to the exposure properties.
March 13, 2009 at 12:05 pm
ooooo. this is cool, digital or film?
March 13, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Digital…for now. I’ve been experimenting with film also, but I won’t be able to really utilize 35mm until I build “the device”. Thanks, by the way. Oh, and my other project is going to be to convert one of my DSLR’s over to Infrared. We’ll see if I don’t kill myself or the camera…
March 13, 2009 at 3:01 pm
hahaha i was oooo-ing as i scrolled down, too, and then i saw toni’s comment and the oooo turned into a giggle. these are beautiful–very painterly, Jason. that last one i lovelovelove!
March 13, 2009 at 4:34 pm
we’re sharing a brain today it seems.
March 13, 2009 at 8:48 pm
that’s a good thing. maybe between the two of us we can keep track of it. the way things are going lately, left on my own, i’ll surely misplace it.
March 16, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Thanks, Steph!
March 14, 2009 at 2:51 am
I full heartedly suppert this movement, Jason. I was actually thinking about it at a grocery store tonight. I love modularity, especially is sort of base concepts that would oordinarily be limited to a specific concept.
In this instance, “impressionism” is a largely painterly concept (as steph pointed out) yet you are exploring it with the effective opposite of painting. It goes to what I was saying a while ago about the work of Mim Golub and Liz Anderson- not just exploring alternative notions of design or purpose, but actively seeking to undermine practical definitions of utility. This makes me want to see photographic abstract expressionism of a sense. Which in itself poses wuestions about what that’d even mean.
Very cool stuff.
March 16, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Hey, J.D. I’ve though about that, photographic abstract expressionism, and what that would mean. And I think that it would have to be done with film or some other light-sensitive, chemically treated surface because the photographer would need to show his presence in the result. Maybe you could achieve something similar using Photoshop and a Wacom(sp?) Tablet, but I think that would raise issues of whether or not the initial photography was even necessary, and then you would just be a regular old, abstract expressionist, working in a digital medium. As a matter of fact, there are actually photographers that are already doing this (although I doubt they call themselves photo-abstract expressionists, as that would draw a lot of derision). Check out this.
March 15, 2009 at 12:00 am
These are beautiful, but you mis-use the descriptive word impressionism here. These are almost pure abstractions, distilled from the literal.
March 15, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Hey Tom, well, yes and no. The focus of Impressionism was mainly to do with light; how light manifested in the environment and atmosphere; how changing seasons affect the light upon an object or setting; how motion is expressed by light and the diffusion of it; etc. These so far have been very dependent and married to all of that, for instance, I have needed to wait for precipitation to fall and the distortions that you see are not things that I am applying to the pictures (they are exactly what I am seeing). However, if I build “the device” I will need to reconsider what I call these. Impressionism was only meant to be a transient moniker for this series, anyway. Thanks for the comment, though!
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May 28, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Love your work and I’m in to it…Keep up the good work Jason.
Scott
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May 31, 2009 at 12:11 am
Thanks, Scott! I appreciate the comment.
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