Some time ago, I wrote about some ideas I had about how I wanted to photograph the landscape. I was, and still am, interested in a minimalist approach to the landscape...as well as in my other personal work too, I might add.Here is a link to that post from about two years ago:
http://tomnutter.blogspot.com/2009/02/minimalist-photography-and-human.html
As it is...Since I have been harping on nude photography, I think I should get back to some other themes that I have been working on....
I am a firm believer that at some point, these seemingly divergent ideas I have will collide and create something great...as always, work takes time. It will not be so simple as to find a willing nude model and just put her out there in the landscape and say that my work is done, and I have created art. This whole landscape and human influence thing boggles my mind for sure.
I am still reading things...still trying to justify adding my own imagery to the overdone genre of nude art studies, and the overdone genre of landscape studies.....and trying to avoid the cliché of pretty naked chicks out in the woods.
I like the picture that I have posted this week, because it is a cliché...just some trees out in the woods...but it is interesting to me because of how generic it is...and how since the trees, the subject of the image, get so lost in the rest of the woods around them...you can barely discern them...can barely see the trees for the forest....to play on another cliché, if I dare. This picture is symbolic for me because I am trying to make something unique, with my own vision...something I have not yet achieved. I always talk about refining vision in photographs. This picture is symbolic of how much work I have left to do.
Some of the technical:
This image was shot on Fuji Acros 100 120 film in a Horseman 6X7 roll film back on a Toyo 45A camera. I did a little swing of the Nikkor W 180mm/f-5.6 lens to screw around with the focus. I think I used a fairly open aperture, like f11....shutter speed was probably around 1/2-sec. Film was developed normally. This was another "Tom Nutter Scan"...a copy shot done hand-held with a digital camera of the negative laying on a light box. Toning, while somewhat sepia, was totally digital and created in p-shop, I also added some lens vignetting with P-shop as well.
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My comment is pertaining towards the idea of landscapes and nudes as clichés. Yes, it is common knowledge in the fine art culture these themes are considered ancient subject matter. These subjects tend to get little respect in an art critique or some sort of review. Post Modern society still functions with social relations between humans and the landscape. Now these terms have very broad definitions and are even obscured with technology, the realm of public and private, and cultural ideals that are always in transformation. I do not conceive of them as cliché, because a different perspective can be regarded if it is spoken or written with no mention of this past redundancy (as a cliché).
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