Thoughts on Photography

 Well. This is sad, Mr Cordier died just a year ago. He was my main inspiration for my paintings/chemigrams. I really loved the way his paintings had layers of color deeper and seller, and the almost geode like look of those layers. In honor I wanted to look at why and how he discovered and created chemigrams. Apparently completely on accident for… love? Says he did it writing a dedication to a young german lady. Which is quite cute if i’m understanding it correctly. It’s so weird how one accident in life can completely change the trajectory of our entire future, he was so captivated by these that he decided to focus his life on them, and wow if I can’t say it was worth it, look at these gorgeous photos he created. I’m mostly inspired by the ones that go beyond his initial works and turn it into almost abstract paintings. He has incredible control or perhaps it’s better to say his taming of the chaos is incredible, some of his photos actually look like they were made by hand, not l...

 John Dugdale was a super interesting photographer to research and the background information of him being blind really stuck with me as I looked at his works. I feel like maybe their like most art, a perception of his view and feelings, the stillness and grandeur but also sadness that is so vivid because of the blue paints a lonesome but tall image of who he saw himself as. I’m not sure that I’ll be doing any cyanotypes quite on his level but I think that he’s a great artist and expresses a school of thought on how you could use this technique. The photos that stood out most to me were the ones where he had the same expression but was in different areas, it sort of grasps how regardless of where he is the feeling of not being apart of that world always lingers, i don’t know if that’s what he was going for but I love that regardless, I also really like the ones where he makes almost collages in the cyanotype which is the image I chose to use.  I’m not sure if this is actually ...