Photography at High Speed: Winning Images and Artists

Peruse all the winners from the 2008 photo competition, "Photography at High Speed," and read in-depth bios on an artist by clicking on his or her photograph.
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"Photography at High Speed: A Historical and Contemporary Exhibit"
Featuring the Winners of the Annual Photography Competition
ORGANIZED BY THE MILLARD SHEETS CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT FAIRPLEX

"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain

You can't depend on a camera's eye either, without the photographer's imaginative certainty in framing each shot. In this exhibit's photographs, even the transience of moving subjects displays a certainty and authority over the photos' individual contextual spaces. Whereas the blurring of people, automobiles, and other subjects in motion was a handicap in the 1830's--the early years of photography--the long exposure blur has since become an aesthetic preference, particularly in emphasizing high-speed activities. This year's competition and exhibit chronicles the capturing of movement, both physically and figuratively, through daguerreotypes, stereographs, pinhole images, Polaroids and digital photos, among other processes. Interpreting five different competition categories--Physical Movement, Photojournalism, Abstracted Movement, Active Illusion, and Movement Through Time--the artists sampled not only techniques, but also styles and subject matter from various periods in photographic history. The exhibit also presents a brief historical survey of photography with original artifacts and still- resonant, iconic images. Whether mischievous or earnest, dependable or questionable, these photographs entertain the humble objective of entertainment, a point certainly not lost on the many pioneers of the medium from pinholes through pixels.

80 photos | 1,095 views

items are from between 31 Dec 1969 & 12 Aug 2008.