User:Sjdagostino

Photo-impressionism
By its nature, photography is an exact process. Images are mechanically reproduced freezing the scene to within a fraction of a second. However, photographers make choices in applying the technology to produce an image which must by definition be distorted, subjective and idealized. There exists in photography a dichotomy between what is true and what we create. Photographs which focus on the essence of the subject rather than its realistic depiction have come to be known as photo-impressionistic.

My discovery of photo-impressionism began five years ago, through Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant’s book Photo-Impressionism and the Subjective Image. That book focuses on the creative use of multiple exposure to create photo-impressionistic images. Since that time, like many other photographers I have experimented and exhibited images that apply these techniques but have been disapointed to find there is no comprehensive historic authority documenting its developement.

My intention is to reasearch photo-impressionism and then submit an article to Wikipedia.

Related Links
My Google Notebook can be found at

http://www.google.com/notebook/public/01178843607745264290/BDSOeIgoQz5qj2asi

Examples of my work can be found at http://www.dagostino.ca

My professional biography can be found at http://www.thomsonrogers.com/stephen-j-dagostino