The Art of Photography: Newburyport Daily News. By Lynne Hendricks Correspondent LINK
"Today, anyone with a smartphone can snap pictures and post them online as an “exhibition” for their closest friends.
But
that doesn’t mean that the photos we post of our vacations, our pets or
our dinners have any merit to anyone outside our circle of friends.
After
roughly 50 years in the business, commissioned to photograph some of
the world’s most important people, places and events, Lou Jones can say
with a reliable degree of confidence that most people’s photos aren’t
very good.
But
there are artistic elements that can be employed to bring your
contemporary images closer to fine, and Jones will share some of what
he’s learned over his long and storied career during a free lecture next
Thursday at the Chestnut Innovation Center in Amesbury.
It’s
the first of three lectures being planned in conjunction with “Bringing
Ideas Together,” a photography exhibit currently on display at the
innovation center.
Jones
was invited by [Greg Nikas, Owner of Sweethaven Studios, Newburyport], to share slides and stories with the region’s bustling
community of artists and art lovers to help them better understand
contemporary photography.
The
inspiration behind the series, titled “Processes,” came from the number
of visitors who have expressed their confusion over what makes the
pictures they can snap on their iPhones and cameras different from the
images on the gallery walls, Scudder said...read more in article link ...
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