Just 6 days ago, June 12, I posted the addition of 3 of my new contemporary art/fine art photography prints, Douglas' Recent Contemporary Art Prints Additions. These were new additions to a series of prints based on the belief, on my belief that "There but for the grace of God go I."
On April 29, knowing I had the images, the photography for these new prints but not being able to, or maybe ready to add these new images I posted an entry on my DOUGLAS Art Prints® blog titled, "There but for the Grace of God go I - Some damn ugly art". I knew I wanted to get these new prints available for purchase and I knew they were of not only an ugly subject but were maybe, probably too real. I sat on them for almost 2 weeks before I added them to my collection of prints.
Before I added these new prints I debated color -v- black and white. Anyone that has seen my catalog of prints is aware of my "fondness" for not only black and white but stark black and white. Originally I thought doing these prints in B&W lost some of what I believed was the power in these images. I still believe that but the more I looked at them the more I realized that they were too real. Last evening I knew I had to change them.
After several hours of black and white variations I ended up back at my usual stark black and white. Personally I like the lack of color and detail. Right or wrong I think it makes, it allows one to use their own imagination, their own life's experiences to fill in the missing color and detail when looking at my work. Even in my commercial photography work with the focus on making things look real or even better than real I believe sometimes what you don't see has as much, if not more power than what you do see. I realized that especially with these 3 prints there was too much reality. No imagination, no thought necessary. They were in your face photographs and they are images most of us would rather ignore as we do when we see the real thing.
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