A View on landscape photography

Abstract

Since its invention scarcely more than a century and a half ago, photography has become not only a phenomenal technical means of communication and visual expression, but unquest:lonably the world's most powerful imagemaking system. Photography is a universal language; it speaks with more force and with greater directness than words. . . The role of the photographer is therefor a very important one. In landscape photography I feel the aim of the photographer is to communicate to the viewer the experience of the landscape that the photographer has had. timeless appeal. A photograph should have a universal and Bearing the above in mind, I have tried to capture this in my approach to landscape photography. With this dissertation I, the Author, will try to show a piece of this 'world'. Taking it right from the early beginnings up to where we stand today providing the reader with the history style and techniques of the old masters, and combining that with what is currently the style. The Author's own work-style, technique, influences and motivations will also be discussed.