Photographers
A photographer is a person who creates an image of the world using a camera. Given that nowadays, everyone takes photographs with their smartphones, it is necessary to distinguish this mass flow of images from the work of fine art photographers who have an artistic intention and aim to create original artworks.
Thus we consider an fine art photograph to be a work that is created with artistic intention and includes a reflection on ideas and technique. Art photography must be an original work by an artist who recognises their role in the creation by signing their name. The concept of an original work is also linked to the limited edition. Generally, the fewer copies are made, the higher the price of each photograph.
All the photographic processes are based on two fundamental requirements, first of all the ability to capture an image and then capacity to fix image onto a support, rendering it visible. It took a lot of experimentation in order achieve this. The very first photograph dates from 1826 and was taken by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce. This photograph shows an image of his house and it took ten hours of exposure time to capture it. It was over ten years until the first photograph representing a human being was taken in 1838. It is an image of the Pont Neuf in Paris on which we can distinguish two passerbys. This photograph is the work of a former student of Nicéphore Niépce: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. Daguerre gave his name to a new technique which consists of fixing a negative image onto a silver plate: the daguerreotype.
The next major breakthroughs were the replacement of the glass plate with dry gel on paper or film which allowed for a wider diffusion of photography and the appearance of colour photography at the beginning of the 20th century. All these techniques can be grouped together under the term analog photography. In the mid 20th century the invention of digital photography revolutionised the medium. It was a technical and artistic revolution, photographers could now see on a screen the image they had just captured and could adjust their shots accordingly and they could also take advantage of the infinite possibilities offered by computer retouching.
Photography is often broken down and classified into different groups including: fashion photography, nude photography, conceptual photography, colour photography, black and white photography, street art photography, and so on.
Some of the greatest photographers in history include: Robert Mapplethorpe, Li Wei, Bert Stern, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier Bresson, Vivian Maier, Philippe Ramette, Bernard Pras, Steve McCurry, Richard Avedon, David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton and Martin Parr.
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Stanislavas Bartnikas
Filled Life
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Frozen Kingdome
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Mirror Earth
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Slowing down
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,212
Stone blanket
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Newborn
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Milky river
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Chorus
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Guillaume Chevallard
Abstraction urbaine #5
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 49 x 69 x 2.9 cm Photography - 19.3 x 27.2 x 1.1 inch
£1,066
Abstraction urbaine 1
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£1,955
Anonymat calculé
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£1,066
Lâcher prise
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,066
À moitié là
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,066
Abstraction urbaine
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£1,955
Stature
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,844
Valse aquatique
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,844
Pamela Tulizo
Lutambi
Pamela Tulizo
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Lutambi meshe
Pamela Tulizo
Photography - 84.1 x 59.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 33.1 x 23.4 x 0.1 inch
£6,221
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Watercolor on photo #1
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£889
Watercolor on photo #5
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£889
Watercolor on photo #12
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£889
Watercolor on photo #11
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£889
Watercolor on photo #10
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£889
Watercolor on photo #9
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£889
Watercolor on photo #7
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£889
Watercolor on photo #4
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£889
Badreddine Rafiq
Reflet rouge
Badreddine Rafiq
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£196
Lumières à Marrakech
Badreddine Rafiq
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£196
Ciel havrais
Badreddine Rafiq
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£196
Reflet aquatique
Badreddine Rafiq
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£196
John Kendrick Dobson
Daylesford, Victoria, Australia
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 62 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 24.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,623
Sherborne, Dorset, UK
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 62 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 24.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,623
Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 62 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 24.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,623
Weymouth, Dorset, UK
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 62 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 24.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,623
Brighton Beach, Melbourne, Australia
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 62 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 24.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,623
Sandbanks, Dorset, UK
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 62 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 24.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,623
Cubism in Haymarket, Sydney, Australia
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 75 x 62 x 3 cm Photography - 29.5 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,623
Copenhagen, Denmark
John Kendrick Dobson
Photography - 75 x 62 x 3 cm Photography - 29.5 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,623
Gabriele Galimberti
Arizona 002. The Ameriguns.
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£3,466
Texas 001. The Ameriguns.
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£3,199
Texas 001. The Ameriguns. (1)
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£3,466
South Carolina 001. The Ameriguns.
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£3,466
Alabama 002. The Ameriguns.
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£3,466
Arizona 002. The Ameriguns.
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£3,466
Box set edition photographie Gabriele Galimberti.
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 21 x 30.5 x 1.5 cm Photography - 8.3 x 12 x 0.6 inch
£160
Archie Geotina
Ikit's Drop Knee (Landscape)
Archie Geotina
Photography - 60.96 x 88.9 cm Photography - 24 x 35 inch
Sold
Tribute to Yayoi Kusama
Archie Geotina
Sculpture - 30 x 13 x 12 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.1 x 4.7 inch
Sold
Teddy Peix
Ki no kioku (Memory of tree), ise-jingu, Ise city, Mie prefecture, 2023-11, n°1
Teddy Peix
Photography - 17 x 20 x 0.01 cm Photography - 6.7 x 7.9 x 0 inch
£240
Ki no kioku, Memory of Tree, Ibuta-ji, Matsusaka city, Mie prefecture, 2023-11, 13
Teddy Peix
Photography - 27 x 20 x 0.01 cm Photography - 10.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
£347
Du bout du monde 02 - Les Écrins (Alpes)
Teddy Peix
Photography - 22 x 22 x 0.04 cm Photography - 8.7 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£240
Du bout du monde 03 - Les Écrins (Alpes)
Teddy Peix
Photography - 22 x 22 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£240
Errances Silencieuses 01, Le lac d’en Haut, la Godivelle. (Auvergne)
Teddy Peix
Photography - 16 x 40 x 0.04 cm Photography - 6.3 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£400
Errances Silencieuses 03 - Sancy (Auvergne)
Teddy Peix
Photography - 16 x 40 x 0.04 cm Photography - 6.3 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£400
Errances Silencieuses 02 - Sancy (Auvergne)
Teddy Peix
Photography - 16 x 40 x 0.04 cm Photography - 6.3 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£400
Du bout du monde 01 - Sancy (Auvergne)
Teddy Peix
Photography - 22 x 22 x 0.04 cm Photography - 8.7 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£240
Terry Hastings
Christie Goodwin
Iconographia
Allégorie de la création à la grenade
Iconographia
Photography - 59.4 x 42 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 inch
£267
Nature morte aux iris et aux tulipes, détail
Iconographia
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
£267
Autoportrait en Allégorie de la Peinture d’après Artemisia Gentileschi
Iconographia
Photography - 30 x 24 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 inch
£311
Eat my Dust, Autoportrait en Bugatti d’après Tamara de Lempicka
Iconographia
Photography - 42 x 59.4 cm Photography - 16.5 x 23.4 inch
£267