The mediums of painting and photography have intersected at many times. With the invention of photography, painters began to work from photographs. Eugene Delacroix created nude studies based on daguerreotype photographs by Eugene Durieu. Praising the effects of photography, Delacroix wrote in 1850 “A daguerreotype is the mirror of the object, certain details almost always…
Tag: landscape photography
Occasions
First begun in 1984, Occasions juxtaposes gift wrapping papers, party streamers, balloons, beach balls, and other brightly colored objects with the ruins of Native American pueblos, mission ruins, ghost towns, military forts, gas stations, and other abandoned structures located throughout the western landscape. The title for Occasions derives from the advertised suggestions for wrapping papers and party…