The Straw Hat Today’s painting is a photograph by the French photographer, Émile Joachim Constant Puyo, who lived from 1857 to 1933. I confess that I have never heard of this photographer/artist so chose to feature Émile Puyo’s photograph, “The Straw Hat,” to gain insight into his work and the time when photography was inContinue reading “#Friday Painting: Émile Joachim Constant Puyo “The Straw Hat””
Category Archives: Photography
What is a Portrait?
What is a portrait? “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.” Oscar Wilde, The PictureContinue reading “What is a Portrait?”
#FridayPainting: English photographer “Portrait of Virginia Woolf”
My #FridayPainting was not a painting at all. It was a photograph. The question that came to me: when did photography become art? Perhaps the better question is: when did the art community accept photography as art? When photography first appeared, art galleries believed that photography was a craft and photographers were technicians. Photography became extremelyContinue reading “#FridayPainting: English photographer “Portrait of Virginia Woolf””
The Art of Remembering Portraits of Persistence
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” Susan Sontag Exciting news! Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery uploaded images from Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence toContinue reading “The Art of Remembering Portraits of Persistence”
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