Abstract:
Since its invention scarcely more than a century and a half ago,
photography has become not only a phenomenal technical means of
communication and visual expression, but unquest:lonably the world's
most powerful imagemaking system. Photography is a universal
language; it speaks with more force and with greater directness than
words. . . The role of the photographer is therefor a very important
one.
In landscape photography I feel the aim of the photographer is to
communicate to the viewer the experience of the landscape that the
photographer has had.
timeless appeal.
A photograph should have a universal and
Bearing the above in mind, I have tried to capture this in my approach
to landscape photography.
With this dissertation I, the Author, will try to show a piece of this
'world'. Taking it right from the early beginnings up to where we
stand today providing the reader with the history style and
techniques of the old masters, and combining that with what is
currently the style. The Author's own work-style, technique,
influences and motivations will also be discussed.
