Today’s image of the day is called Hand on Door from the Somnambulist series by master fine art American photographer Ralph Gibson; it was shot in 1968. Many of Gibson’s most famous photographs are high contrast images, and this high contrast has become part of his signature style. Gibson’s photographs were created through meticulous film developing (by Gibson himself) and printing.
What attracts me to this and many other Gibson images is the strong sense of story and the very striking graphic quality of the image.
Hand on Door from the Somnambulist series by Ralph Gibson — 1968
I have to agree with Marko. This image certainly portrays a sense of a bigger story going on in the background. I love the glowing light effect around the hand that the photographer has captured.
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This is great. I love this.
No prob KB — This is personal stuff but I fail to see how this image is ANYTHING but fine art. (Not that that was even part of this post, but I do like to spar from time to time
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This image is OOOOOOOOzing fine art from every pore.…in my opinion. The level of difficulty in creating this image is HIGH (try and reproduce it if you think it’s simple — but be prepared to invest a bunch of hours imo). The intent of the artist is clear for me and the story is way way strong. I also do not find technical fault with this image. Keep in mind we are looking at a web image that’s 50 years old and only 30k. I’d expect the actual print to look superior. I’ve seen this image in books and it looks superior to this web image.
The fact that a modern app can reproduce this effect, is meaningless to me and does not diminish the image for me in any way.
We’ve had the what is art (fine art) debate countless times on our site…and it’s personal as to what any one person will call art. I 100% accept that you find this image poor. I hope you’ll accept that I 100% disagree with you
When people disagree with me that just makes me look/work harder — so feel free to call me out on anything at anytime.
Thx! Marko
Hi Marko. why is this considered “fine art”? If a pic like this was done today with technology and all , it would be criticized as poor quality. I understand that a picture is worth a thousand words but, c’mon! I appreciate everyone has their own tastes but I fail to see what makes fine art “fine art”. these days with the “apps” on so much software there is a resurgence of making a pic look old school. Are we bound in the photography feild destined to copy like the movie indusrty has done over the past few years? is fine art classified as such to a select few in the industry and we follow like lambs?
What makes fine art? I’m not picking on your choice of art , I just need some insight on others thoughts.