Today I’ve been looking on the website ‘thephotographersgallery.org’ to see some examples of images that have been created using traditional photography and digital imaging. It’s amazing what can be done and I’m excited to think I’ll be learning some of these techniques over the next couple of months! Here’s six examples of what’s possible, which is your favourite?
The two images above are by Elliott Erwitt (b.1928). He has turned his camera towards the humane and humorous since he began photographing in the late 1940s. Widely considered a master of the ‘decisive’ moment, Erwitt seeks to capture the irony and absurd of daily life. Over the past 60 years he has created some of the defining images of the 20th Century. All photographs in Erwitt’s vast and extraordinary archive are available from Print Sales.
Julie Cockburn (born UK 1966) reimagines found photographs through cutting, embroidering and collaging. Cockburn studied at Chelsea College of Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and now lives and works in London. She has exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe and the United States and her work resides in a number of public collections, including the Yale Center for British Art (USA) and the Wellcome Collection (London, UK).
The final two images are by Tom Butler. The website tells us he collects memories, thresholds and hiding places and attempts to re-manufacture them in a visual way. He is most recognized for his ongoing series of unique hand painted Victorian Cabinet cards – previously discarded albumen photographs – featuring portraits of men and women rendered anonymous by colourful patterns and forms applied in meticulously detailed gouache. These painted interventions express Butler’s natural inclination towards introversion and the opposition of displaying artwork essentially about hiding. Each artwork is unique.
The information and images are all copied from thephotographersgallgery.org – if you would like to see more of these images go checkout the website.