By the 1970’s, the 35mm single lens reflex had become the dominant camera among the public and professional photographers, in particular photojournalists, superseding rangefinder and twin lens reflex cameras. Because viewing and image taking were separated in the rangefinder and TLR designs, parallax distortion was created meaning that what a photographer saw was not exactly … [Read more...]
How Digital Photography may be changing the way we take photographs
Helen Stead discusses how turning family snapshots into Art has led her to reevaluate how digital photography is changing our approach to capturing photographs. My work explores my own personal family history and I use old family photo albums as a starting point to begin each piece. I generally create work for myself, to help identity with hidden or repressed qualities of … [Read more...]