Marco Breuer

The term painterly is probably one way to describe Marco Breuer’s work because indeed these are technically photographs, not paintings.  We’ve heard of photograms and cyanotypes, other processes and techniques, but Breuer’s methods are used to manipulate the emulsion and even just the photo paper itself.    We can remember Polaroid transfers and SX-70 manipulations […]

Sebastião Salgado / “Salt of the Earth”

Salt of the Earth Trailer I finally got to see the documentary film chronicling Sebastião Salgado’s work and his life.  Some photographs were not familiar to me, but also illuminating, the stories behind them.  Some will break your heart.  Some photographs are disturbing, but all show a truth that exists that we need to see […]