The social media landscape has changed so much since I began this blog in 2007. Though this site is the center of my communications for Kathryn Wagner Photography I felt it only fair to reach out and connect directly to you, dear reader via the social media channel of your choice. A full range of [...]
The runway in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies. On occasion I have been asked “why travel and food photography?” The short answer: Photographing food and travel images for businesses, brands and magazines allows me to combine three things which I am passionate about: eating, exploring and recording amazing experiences to share with others. The longer [...]
“As great a picture can be made as one’s mental capacity–no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.” – Edward Weston “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you …
If someone gave you thirty years and said “what would you like to do with yourself? “what would you like to learn?” and “with whom would you like to learn it?” What would you say? Only once you have answers to these questions can you begin to embark on your own path of success. Just [...]
I have taken a break from blogging over the past two weeks to recharge and refresh. During this time I got to thinking how important time off is for an individual’s productivity level. When you work as a freelancer it is easy to fall into the trap of constantly working on projects which not only [...]
“A brand name is more than a word. It is the beginning of a conversation.” – Lexicon “The word “brand” is derived from the Old Norse brandr meaning ‘to burn.’ It refers to the practice of producers burning their mark (brand) onto their products.” A good example of this is the practice of burning one’s [...]
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By Guest Blogger Rachel SwartzThe motif of the Ferris wheel is a lyrical, evocative one for artists. There is a multiplicity of metaphors – childlike joy and wonder, the circular pattern, an expression of the machine age’s majesty – that the technology conveys by its placement in a composition. See Robert Delaunay’s 1912 The …
Guest Blogger Evan Johnson“Truth has to be made vivid, interesting; it has to be ‘dramatized’…”– documentary filmmaker Trinh Minh-HaMinh-Ha speaks of the need to dramatize truth in documentary film. Having recently viewed her film Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (1989), I thought about the ways in which this dramatization of truth …
By Guest Blogger Rachel SwartzThe tropics were a favored subject of the early moderns, a fascination that has spilled over into popular culture. The lush, exotic watery blues, sandy whites, rocky yellows and leafy greens of the Caribbean and Pacific islands were well-suited to the frenetic style of artists such as Paul Gauguin (see …
By Guest Blogger Evan JohnsonThe importance of the camera itself is central in thinking about Kathryn’s new series, “The Great Divide”. Using a pinhole camera and the traditional development process, the role of both tool and method are highlighted in a manner altogether different than with digital. Sculptor Alexander Calder wrote in 1943:I feel that [...]
By Guest Blogger Rachel SwartzThese two pieces of art have little in common visually, but when deconstructed to their meanings and influences are a perfect pair. Shepherd Fairey’s ubiquitous, now-iconic Obama graphic is an exercise in the reduction of elements and a subsequent increase in the arresting power of the work; so is Kathryn’s …
Perhaps more than any art movement in history, nature ruled the world of the Impressionists. Light was of huge importance; they painted outside, en plein air, and strove to capture the sensations of illumination and warmth that radiate from the sun through pure, unfiltered color.Compare this work from Kathryn’s “Journey” series with Monet’s Landscape at [...]