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February 3rd, 2010
March/April Preview of Lori Nix’s Portfolio
In anticipation of the forthcoming March/April issue of photo technique, we are excited to give our readers a preview of Lori Nix’s “The City in Miniature: Photographing a Diorama.” Lori Nix, a Brooklyn based photographer, constructs and photographs intricately detailed dioramas in the living room of her apartment. Through her attention to detail and lighting techniques, she renders rich and unique imagery with unparalleled surrealistic environments. Beyond appealing aesthetics, Nix’s images in “The City” serve as narratives of significant cultural themes. Nix explains, “I focus on the ruins of urban landscapes, I construct spaces that celebrate modern culture, knowledge, and innovation, as well as humanity’s more unsavory patterns of consumerism and potential debauchery: the theater, the museum, a vacuum cleaner showroom, and a dark, dingy bar. Here the buildings of civilization and material culture are abandoned, lying in a state of decay and ruin, with natural elements such as plants, insects and animals beginning to repopulate the spaces. This idea of paradise lost, or the natural world reclaiming itself, becomes more forceful as we face greater environmental challenges in the world around us”. The vision of Lori Nix is a dynamic and complex one, and photo technique is pleased to include her latest portfolio in our upcoming issue. It’s just a few more weeks until you can read the full article and see the beautiful reproductions yourself! Also featured in the March/April issue:
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A response to Fred Mertz.
Construction and theatre before the camera goes back to H.P. Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Paul Outerbridge, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Cindy Sherman, Kertesz, Man Ray, Oscar Rejlander, and many others. It has been a rich tradition.
Thank you for changing your print in the March/April issue. The Jan/Feb almost prompted me to get an eye exam. I like what you are doing but the written word was a little over the edge for my old eyes. Please do not go back! Thank you
When did fine art photography suddenly become about constructing something in front of the camera to mechanically record?
Interesting it is. Art it ain’t.
Is Millea broadly generalizing about all of photography, or is he myopically speaking about one particular genre of the art, what he alludes to as “Fine Art”? Either way, his piece comes of as bitter and out of touch.
The answer to the question “What is Fine Art Photography?” is being determined every day by an ever increasing number of photographers and photography critics who no longer see the answer within the tightly confined box of traditional photographic forms and technique. Labels such as “Modernism” have become far less relevant as a descriptive formula.
Millea certainly has no basis to judge the spirituality and/or devotion to craft of the new generation of photographers.
I explore these issues and topics frequently on my blog… PHOTO/arts Magazine
http://chpaquettephotos.blogspot.com
Hello to you all!
I felt that I should to make an introduction to you all. I am hoping that that we all will have great conversations together!
So Hello!
-Jon
Congratulations on the March/April issue. Not since the photo-art magazine Aperture first came out about forty years ago have we had the pleasure of a photo magazine that is beautiful to look at and full of new ideas. Imagine an article in this degraded age that quotes Hegel and Etienne Gilson to explain the purpose of art, as Tom Millea’s article does. It’s a real treat.