One might ask why this matters — whether it is not, finally, a self regarding project, a kind of extended navel-gazing with better materials. The answer is that a genuine personal visual language is one of the most outward-facing things a human being can produce. When you construct a language…
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Sometime, within the first few weeks of art school, someone will say it. A professor, a visiting critic, a paint-stained upperclassman leaning in a doorway–they say the same thing. And, it sticks with you: “Create your own personal visual language.” The phrase lands with the weight of instruction and the…
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Since receiving my first rangefinder camera at age nine, I have learned from my practice and studies that photography is a decisive engagement with reality. This phrase suggests something far more active—and far more philosophical—is involved with photography than simple image-making. The phrase frames photography not as passive recording, but…
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Once I coined the term “Illusograph” for a certain type of artwork I do, it was easy to coin another phrase for another type of artwork I do – the fictive advertisements, logos, brands, anything commercial looking really. I call them Mythographs – which, of course, coined some other words…
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“f/8 and be there” — the old photographer’s mantra. I paraphrased this expression into the title of today’s post – f/8 and don’t be late” – but the spirit is the same. And, it sounds better with a rhyme don’t you agree? This saying is commonly associated with Arthur Fellig,…
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Please Read On ... There is a peculiar moment in photography when technique begins to masquerade as doctrine. One hears it often, spoken casually but with quiet authority: don’t shoot at f/16. The reasoning is not without merit—diffraction, that subtle optical phenomenon, begins to soften the image as the aperture narrows. Lens tests confirm…
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This article, The 50 Secrets of Magic Design is written after the spirit—if not the spectacle—of Salvador Dalí and his book, The 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, written in 1948. Dali offered the 50 secrets for painting through his well-known eccentricities, philosophies and odd artistic practices in this very important…
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An ordered field asserts itself immediately—gridded, measured, rational. It establishes a ground of authority, a silent claim that structure precedes expression. Across this disciplined surface, vectors cut with urgency: black arcs, red diagonals, intersecting trajectories that refuse stasis. The composition feels less composed than enacted, as if forces have been…
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Eric Hatheway 
The Artist 
Lumbergh