Swanson's work is very centered around nature and the natural or primitive world. She spends the majority of her time outdoors and combines her love of the outdoors with her love of photography. It is very important that her viewers can feel the way she felt while taking the picture rather than just seeing an image.
I really like her style of photography. She is able to capture the intrigue and beauty of everyday objects. Her compositions are also very strong in that she pays very close attention to the design aspects of photography as well as the actual subject matter. She is not concerned with the viewer being able to clearly see what is in front of them; she wants it to be mysterious and evoke the imagination. Her extreme close up images and the somewhat out of focus parts create a very peaceful flow throughout the work of art. I'm really glad that I came across her and by viewing her work it helps me to develop new ideas for different ways of cropping and manipulating images.
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ReplyDeleteGood. Her use of selective focus and macro perspective certainly does serve to abstract the image. It prompts the viewer to appreciate not only the particulars of the objects, but also what they *look* like. Your comment is interesting:
ReplyDelete"It is very important that her viewers can feel the way she felt while taking the picture rather than just seeing an image. "
How exactly do you think she accomplishes this? How does she direct "mood"? Through formal graphic means? (For example, a sense of prickliness provoked by close up patterns of barbs?) Lighting? BTW, this is probably the biggest challenge most artist / photographers face. How do you accomplish it?