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Updated: May 16, 2013 9:30pm PST

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Updated: Jan 01, 2013 9:32am PST

Talkin' About the Weather

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Updated: Jan 13, 2013 10:01pm PST

Maya Experience Select

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Updated: Sep 01, 2011 8:50pm PST

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1 gallery with 196 photos

Updated: May 16, 2013 9:30pm PST

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9 galleries with 586 photos

Updated: Sep 01, 2011 8:50pm PST

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3 galleries with 142 photos

Updated: Jan 01, 2013 9:37am PST

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7 galleries with 360 photos

Updated: Jan 13, 2013 10:01pm PST

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3 galleries with 256 photos

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4 galleries with 103 photos

Updated: Jan 28, 2013 10:28pm PST

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1 gallery with 117 photos

Updated: Sep 06, 2012 6:45pm PST

About The Artist

4 galleries with 122 photos

Updated: Aug 12, 2012 10:04am PST

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Updated: May 07, 2013 8:40pm PST

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Updated: Aug 12, 2012 7:54am PST

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The artist’s interpretation only begins with the camera since the image in the viewfinder is never what is seen in the mind’s eye. Images have been manipulated virtually since photography was invented in 1826 to meet the artists’ aesthetic. As early as 1857, Rejlander created a masterpiece, “Two ways of Life”, which was purchased by Queen Victoria and had been made from over 30 negatives blended together. This photo, as big as an easel painting (16 x 31”) had earlier shocked the art world by being displayed on par with paintings. In my collection, I have “tin types” from the late 1800’s which had been hand colored to add life to faces and gold to jewelry.

With each leap in technology, the other arts were affected as well. For example, a running horse had never been depicted correctly on canvas until 1878 when Muybridge took advantage of the new fast emulsions and an array of 24 cameras to capture the equine movement in a stop motion sequence. Or who can forget Duchamp’s 1912 cinema inspired, staccato “Nude Descending Staircase”? The argument continues today about film versus digital capture in photography. Film will never go away just as we see a resurgence of “tin types” and other honored media. But we do have at our finger tips a very powerful series of tools from the digital camera to the computer to the inkjet printer to create our art. Regardless of the means used, to paraphrase Ansel Adams, ‘A photograph is not taken, it is made’.


...Welcome to my gallery. I hope you find it both interesting and entertaining. For prints please contact me directly.

bernie@bernardwerner.org

My bio: http://bernardwerner.smugmug.com/AboutTheArtist/My-Smug-Mug/5252891_RdvtCT#!i=319477405&k=k2PC8

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