Take a look at the work of Richard Koenig.
http://people.kzoo.edu/~rkoenig/homepage.html
What are your first impressions of the work featured on Koenig's home page? How do you think this image was created?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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At first, when I looked at his chair series, I thought that the chairs were actually glued to the wall. His imagery succeeded in tricking my mind. His work is very interesting and very respectable. This image was created my strategic use of photography, either with film or digital use. He would have a picture of an image then take part of the actual subject and place it on the wall with the image to create an exquisite illusion.
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The first impression i got from this artist is that he was really creative, some of his images are very unrealistic almost surreal. some of them are also very ghost like. and i noticed that he uses a male with glasses in a majority of his images. i find this very cool. it almost seems pretty mysterious. when he shoots his pictures he takes like two split images and matches it up with the main images to give it a real surreal type of look. as a huge surrealism fan myself, i like the way he puts together his images.
At first glance, the homepage and the image on the homepage seem uninteresting, and not relatively difficult to create. Then, with further exploration, the imagery is actually somewhat engaging.
My favorite collection is the Inserts series. Similar to the image on the homepage, it is a collection of photographs with a picture from that same setting in the photo. The picture within the picture gives additional information, it acts as an insert by including more details to the story.
The photograph on the main page could have been digitally enhanced, which would not surprise me in today’s world of photography (a favorite photographer of mine, Bradley Peters said something similar, “My generation might be the last to have believed in any form of photographic truth. People are now surprised if they find out an image hasn't been altered in some way.”). It would be truly stunning if this image was not altered in some way. That would prove true talent and a creative eye.
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