#1 WINS BLACK & WHITE SPIDER AWARD!
#1 was inspired by and pays homage to James Turrell, an American artist known internationally for his masterful work within the Light and Space movement.
I am very grateful to the 10th Annual Black and White Spider Awards jury awarding #1, a digital montage, a Nominee Award in the Abstract category in international fine art competition — especially since #1 represents my return to the world of black and white, where I began my career in photography.
To understand traditional photography - to which I was strongly committed - from the ground up, I shot for many years with completely manual cameras (think light meter, gray scale calculations), developed and printed my negatives full-frame (no cropping!), and did all my enlargements up to 16” x 20” myself. When digital imaging was in its infancy, many artists - even some instructors I studied with - did not consider digitally produced black and white photography as fine art..
Photography as an art form has come a long way since those days. One can argue that there are many acceptable alternate forms now considered under the rubric of art photography. Think where we are now with multi-media presentations and with fantastic videos like Christian Marclay’s 24-hour video “The Clock.”
