Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), holland artist famous for his canvas in which he painted domestic life scenes with an awesome light and wonderful colors. He made only 36 paintings in his artist career. In his works sometimes point of view is behind a curtain or door: we look like curious voyeur. In most of the scenes …
Street photography and street art – Second giveaway in Rome.Previously I’ve left a letter with a photo street in Rome along the Tevere river; it was the first of the series. This time I’ve put a signed and numbered surreal street shot inside a yellow letter left somewhere in Rome. I’ve taken this photo about …
LIFE INSIDE First giveaway! Black and white street shot signed and numbered printed on high quality baryta paper. The photo was left somewhere in Rome… LightJet on baryta paper 13,5×9 cm VIDEO That’s all folks Stay well, have always light in your life Best, F.S Read also: The circular rhythm of life Read …
Existence is made of births, growths, deaths, births, growths, deaths… Our lifes have beautiful and terrible moments with ups and downs. There is an invisible repetitive and circular rhythm that marks times and events of each one. In 1866 the Austrian Johan Strauss composed his masterpiece, the wonderful waltz The Blue Danube. This composition has a circular …
Edvard Munch was a norwegian painter born on decembre 1863, famous for his masterpiece, The Scream. Thanks to his paintings I’ve learnt different important things in art, and of course in photography. In this article blog I’ve summarized three great lessons that Edward Munch has taught me. He isn’t my favourite painter but I love …
Minimalism in street photography – Less is more, that’s my opinion . I love minimalism in painting, photography and cinema. I don’t know the exact reason probably because I like the simplicity. Minimal images are more essential, so it is easier for our eyes to interpret them. I like to photograph geometries (repetitions of the …
Let’s talk about dynamism in art. Two artist, the painter Franz Kline and the street photographer Daido Moriyama. What do they have in common? The black and white and the strong dynamism in their works. Franz Kline paints irregular lines and geometrical elements while Daido Moriyama tilts his camera to create movement and different point …
Here is a quick re-cap about art articles written by me. This blog (started on february 2019) is centered on street photography and landscape photography. But i love to make parallelisms between photography, painting and cinema. I think to improve our photography we have to look to other art as painting and movie. Studying compositions, …
Finding a personal style in landscape and street photography is important to express our point of view in life. In my opinion if you don’t have a personal style you’ll never be a real artist. Style is about composition, content, post-production and even editing. “Style is your footprint”. Today is more difficult to find a …
Study Cèzanne for your photography – Studying great master of photography is probably the best way to develop your photographic eye. But you can learn more if you examine also other arts. For example you can try to study single movie frames and of course paintings. In this article i’ll talk about Cèzanne; analyzing some of …