All that Glitters is not gold
The All the Glitters is not Gold photography exhibit at the Phoenix art museum is a special exhibit that brings the viewer through the history of photography through it’s beginnings as a form of creating a painting through pictures and into its details middle, it’s creative present and futures. Each photo is done in the platinum printing process. A unique way of processing photos that brings about an unparalleled detail. The exhibit welcomes the viewer with the photo A Reed Cutter at work by Peter Henry Emerson, which in its own unique way combines the life of photography into one photo.
The photo itself is the elder of the exhibit and is put in a perfect location to welcome the viewers to the exhibit. It also does something else it says good-bye and begs for one last look after one has gone through and had their photographic history lesson. The photo itself is a mix of genres and thanks to the platinum printing process is absolutely stunning even with its small time. When you look at the reeds you see a detail within every thistle until you get to the tops. Then like the future pictorialists who loved a soft almost paining like touch it fades into a soft artistic blend of landscape, beauty almost like a paining at the tops of each reed.
Like the modernists The Reed cutter is also an example of detail. It throws the viewer into what the future will be the man at his duties with such detail it is unparalleled. Most artists within the modernist times did not like to shoot people but left nature untouched by they did shoot with an unparreled detail. When you look at the photo it almost brings about an old school version of 1080P through platinum is something that the viewer is absolutely spoiled with. Wonderment is something different.
Peter Henry Emerson took time and a simple duty that a man does for a living and turns it into a masterpiece of simplicity by unveiling the future of photography before he even knew it. The eyes wonder from the reflection of the reeds in the water to the softness of the tops. A history of photography and the simplicity of a photo are brought to the viewer’s eyes through the complex process of platinum printing.
Through out the all the glitters is gold experience the viewer is taken through photography history through a different style platinum development and not silver gelatin. It starts with A Reed Cutter and in the end concludes with the Reed cutter as you exit. Art often has a beginning that depicts what is to come a style even if the viewers know it or not. The All the Glitters is Gold alludes to the beginning, growth and maturity of photography through one photo, which is a wonder.
The photo itself is the elder of the exhibit and is put in a perfect location to welcome the viewers to the exhibit. It also does something else it says good-bye and begs for one last look after one has gone through and had their photographic history lesson. The photo itself is a mix of genres and thanks to the platinum printing process is absolutely stunning even with its small time. When you look at the reeds you see a detail within every thistle until you get to the tops. Then like the future pictorialists who loved a soft almost paining like touch it fades into a soft artistic blend of landscape, beauty almost like a paining at the tops of each reed.
Like the modernists The Reed cutter is also an example of detail. It throws the viewer into what the future will be the man at his duties with such detail it is unparalleled. Most artists within the modernist times did not like to shoot people but left nature untouched by they did shoot with an unparreled detail. When you look at the photo it almost brings about an old school version of 1080P through platinum is something that the viewer is absolutely spoiled with. Wonderment is something different.
Peter Henry Emerson took time and a simple duty that a man does for a living and turns it into a masterpiece of simplicity by unveiling the future of photography before he even knew it. The eyes wonder from the reflection of the reeds in the water to the softness of the tops. A history of photography and the simplicity of a photo are brought to the viewer’s eyes through the complex process of platinum printing.
Through out the all the glitters is gold experience the viewer is taken through photography history through a different style platinum development and not silver gelatin. It starts with A Reed Cutter and in the end concludes with the Reed cutter as you exit. Art often has a beginning that depicts what is to come a style even if the viewers know it or not. The All the Glitters is Gold alludes to the beginning, growth and maturity of photography through one photo, which is a wonder.