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Photography IS Art

Photography

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art." Ansel Adams

 I am a visual artist. I am a painter. I am a photographer. Photography is art. It is about visualization. It is composition. It is context. It is mood. It is creative vision. It is fine art.


Matthew G. Beall - taking the shot
Matthew G. Beall  Fischerplatz Gallerie

Matthew G. Beall  Im Namen des Vaters,  2011    Ulm Cathedral

Matthew G. Beall  Stop Thinking,  2011  NYC

Matthew G. Beall  What is, What was - The Reflection,   Chicago

Matthew G. Beall  - Cape Cod
Matthew G. Beall  Yes, Sears Tower
Matthew G. Beall  All at Rest - Hell's Kitchen Parking, 2010  NYC

Matthew G. Beall  Von Unten nach Oben - Irgendwo in der Mitte,  Chicago

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The Ulm Cathedral - A Bit Closer Up

I am lucky to live in a city with its own cathedral - der ulmer Münster (Ulm Cathedral). It is impressive. It is old. It is filled with detail. It is architectural delight.

I often go out an shoot the cathedral. I wait for a day with some sun and try to go out at the right time to capture shadows and light.  I usually take shots of parts of the whole i.e. the whole from a distance. This time I focused a bit closer up.

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Matthew G. Beall  A Bit Closer Up, 2011  Ulm Cathedral, Germany



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Playing with Light and Dark - Out of the Haze


Despite the haze, there's still light


A bottle of water and sun

  Even when it seems completely bleak, there's still a flicker of light

Hope
 




And out of the darkness we begin to see things a little more clearly
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San Francisco's Golden Gate - Element of a Bridge in Black and White

 Looking up at an element in San Francisco, California.

The Golden Gate Bridge is an icon. Often we see it as a whole, yet it is made up of many elements.I decided to take a look, a unique look, at an element in Black and White.

Matthew G. Beall   Element ,  2008 -2011

The next time you cross the Golden Gate Bridge, Look up.

See my previous post about Looking Up
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A Black and White Photography Adventure and the Architectural Kunsthalle Weishaupt

Kunsthalle Weishaupt

Architecture: Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany

When I first heard that art collector Siegfried Weishaupt was going to build a Kunsthalle in Ulm to share his collection and mount exhibitions, I was like a little boy waiting for Christmas to come. I thought it would never get here. Kunsthalle Weishaupt opened on Nov. 24, 2007.

The 4000 square meter building, designed by WWA - Wolfram Wöhr Architekten of Munich, is geometric. It is a beautiful design that contrasts perfectly with the traditional architecture of the city. It is balanced. It is art itself.

Walking on air
A bridge was built between the Ulmer Musem and Kunsthalle Weishaupt. I can tell you it is cool. You really do feel like you are walking on air, it's surreal.

Matthew G. Beall 'Bridge' 2011

Click to see my post about the current exhibition Robert Longo

Front of Kunsthalle Weishaupt and one of Longo's drawings
 The beauty of architecture in black and white

Matthew G. Beall  2011
Matthew G. Beall  2011
Matthew G. Beall  2011
Matthew G. Beall  2011
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A Chicken, A Clock, Elements and Looking Up

Continuing my Looking Up adventure, I went out on yet another nice, sunny day to take a few shots, looking up. Again, you sometimes find things that you never noticed before such as a clock at the top of a building around the corner from my place. And, to make it even more interesting, there's a chicken, or is it a rooster, sitting atop the clock.

Then I walked over to a circular parking garage and, for the first time, actually looked up from the bottom to the top. The sun beating down on the architectural elements of the structure from this perspective is perfect  for a black and white photograph.

TipLook Up!

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Matthew G. Beall  Atop the Clock,  2011

Matthew G. Beall  Elements  2011

Matthew G. Beall  Elements 3,  2011
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Matthew G. Beall Art :: Inside the Studio: My Photography

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Der Techniker ist im Urlaub aka Looking Up

Today I walked to the camera store to take my camera in for a good ol’ fashioned cleaning (it really does need it). The owner said, “der Techniker  ist im Urlaub.”  So the tech is on vacation this week and I can bring it back on Monday. ‘Scheiße’ I thought to myself and then I thought, hey, I can go out and take a few pictures. It’s such a blue, sunny day after all. And so I did.

We often go out and about without ever looking up. I decided to look up. Looking up can sometimes lead you to discover things you’ve never seen before. Looking up can make a picture more interesting. 

Matthew G. Beall  Shadows on the Wall,  2011

Matthew G. Beall  The White Stripes, 2011

Matthew G. Beall  The Windows, 2011

Matthew G. Beall  The Contrast, 2011

Matthew G. Beall  Irgendwo in der Mitte, 2011

Matthew G. Beall  die Ecke, 2011
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456 West 19th Street Manhattan

A beautifully designed piece of architecture located at the epicenter of the dynamic West Chelsea art gallery district and at the foot of  Highline Park. I shot this in August, 2010.  The geometry of this building is pleasing to the eye.
456 West 19th Street
456 West 19th Street
456 West 19th Street
456 West 19th Street


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