Author Archives: Vlad

As a “thank you” and “goodbye” I would like to share with the class some photos that I found inspirational for me. They are something that I stumbled upon during this semester. They are quirky, funny, emotional, original and creative… … Continue reading →

“Food” assumes a very broad specter of things that can be consumed. The purest form of food is fruits and grains that were created for human consumption. The original food is beautiful to our eye, as it was made for … Continue reading →

As I read Richard Whelan’s discussion of Capa’s photograph of a “Death of a Loyalist Soldier” I recall the controversy around the Moon Landing. I don’t doubt the fact that the Moon landing wasn’t staged since the evidence presented in the video … Continue reading →

Early cinematography certainly had a good footing with the help of the early photography. Judging from the way camera was used, cinematography was considered to be just an extension to the photography, and not a distinct enterprise it is today. … Continue reading →

It is difficult (if possible at all) to know for sure what goal Holland Day was trying to achieve, when he made his famous “Crucifix with Roman Soldiers”. Was it an allusion to high art? Or maybe it was an … Continue reading →

Just 7 months ago my friend got a chance to visit me. He lives in different country and it was his first visit to the USA, his first time seeing New York. I took him to Manhattan, expecting to see … Continue reading →

The way I understand it, art is an intentional depiction of appealing mixture of the form, composition and color. Art can be visual and auditory as well as functional. Art can be innovative, but more often it is an expression … Continue reading →

Photographs, made long ago, are silent testimonies of events distant from us in time and comprehension of captured reality. Even though they are not as strange to us as paintings or narratives they still are veiled from us by inability … Continue reading →

William Henry Talbot, photographing (or should I say calotyping) Articles of China started a new trend – use captured image not for aesthetic pleasure only, but for practical use as well. Nothing really changed since then: as soon as opportunity presents itself, we … Continue reading →