Tag: Photography
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Plastic Free July #2: On Photography
I’m a a bit of a purist when it comes to photography, preferring to get my compositions and settings as accurate as possible for the shoot, and keeping post editing to the most basic. “Fake photography” is as pervasive, and just as popular as fake news. Once apon a time a photo had some bonafide…
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Cupid awake and asleep
Reflections from a window provide a modern take on Morris Burke Parkinson’s late Victorian photogravures of four-year-old Josephine Anderson, copyrighted by the photographer in 1897. Parkinson’s work is highly stylized and dramatic with something of a staged effect, typical of Pictorialism, a style of photography made popular by Henry Peach Robinson in the 1860’s. The…