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ElenaVizerskaya is a cutting edge photographer with a unique style unlike most at iStockPhoto. http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/5767540/?facets={%2230%22%3A%22100%22}#617a488Share your thoughts on this artist.
She's a top-notch art photographer. She ought to be selling through galleries rather than through microstock. I doubt if much of her work has ended up in adverts rather than on walls.The curious thing is that when she gets away from the surreal into ordinary stock she doesn't seem to have much of a clue. If you search by age, the first page is pretty mundane.I just saw Ithn's remarks. He seems to have a very narrow idea of what art is allowed to be. I'm not sure why he counts Avedon's tedious studio mugshots as high art. Maybe he read somewhere that this guy is officially sanctioned as a great artist.There. That should put the cat among the pigeons.
Personally speaking: no photography should ever be called art, too young a media for that, consequently when I see pics from people like this woman? well its pretty and pretencious, thats it.
her best sellers are Vettas, you can really find just a handful of e+ files among the first 200 files. So the 5300+ DLs are really more like 50k+ for someone who has just a handful of Vettas.
Quote from: Slovenian on June 14, 2011, 04:00 her best sellers are Vettas, you can really find just a handful of e+ files among the first 200 files. So the 5300+ DLs are really more like 50k+ for someone who has just a handful of Vettas. Have they always been Vettas, or does that include a heap of downloads from pre-Vetta times?
When asked about his art, he said, Oh this balloney is not art, I just create and paint the stuff, then some lunatic will come along and buy it.
Personally as I said, any kind of photography is IMO, too young a media to even come close to real art. However if you can create a stunner in-camera, using just the camera, composition, lighting, etc and without any help from retouching in any form, well, then its impressive.
I like her work, it is awesome. I agree with others selling such work on Microstock does not do justice to her talent. A coffee table book or two (if she does not already do so) will give her the much deserved publicity and visibility. Now if she would come to MSG and share with us her thoughts, that would be nice.
Quote from: lagereek on June 14, 2011, 05:53Personally as I said, any kind of photography is IMO, too young a media to even come close to real art. However if you can create a stunner in-camera, using just the camera, composition, lighting, etc and without any help from retouching in any form, well, then its impressive.I found this impressive, as an example of in-camera work:http://www.flickr.com/photos/23209605@N00/5612080013/#in/photostreamIt's interesting that much of her best work is large format.
Personally as I said, any kind of photography is IMO, too young a media to even come close to real art. However if you can create a stunner in-camera, using just the camera, composition, lighting, etc and without any help from retouching in any form, well, then its impressive.Many years back I photographed David-Hockney at work, gigantic studio in the Highlands of Scotland, his paintings were already then selling for millions of bucks.When asked about his art, he said, Oh this balloney is not art, I just create and paint the stuff, then some lunatic will come along and buy it.