http://www.janoliehoek.com/
Her manipulations revolve around surrealism. All of her images come from stock photography. Alot of her work is just for her, she has done a few client jobs, she says its more of a hobby. While looking at it as a hobby she says that she can be quite picky about what she does or what she doesnt. Jan got a degrree in biology but says that it does not influence her work, though many think that her animal combinations comes from her degree studies.
I really like her work. I think that her degree may play a bit in her work but not in a scientific way. I think that it shows how much she is into animals and the world around her. However I also see it as her showing us maybe what she wishes the world around her was like. The above image is my favorite because it looks like a twist on traped in a castle, repunzle. There is only one way to get to this place and only one way to leave.
Ger Vendel
http://www.gervendel.com/GerVendel/Ger_Vendel___ABOUT.html
couldnt get the image to work but here is a link .........
http://www.artbox.nl/index.php?action=imagemanipulation&subaction=129#
Ger Vendel, a professional retoucher and illustrator, living and working in Amsterdam, with over 15 years experience in the advertising industry. Starting out as a conventional illustrator back in the early 90’s before adapting his skills into the digital world in the mid 90’s. His experience on retouching platforms include, Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Illustrator, Cinema 4D, Painter and Z-Brush.
The one that I wanted to put up here was the "Nissan." The reason as to why I like this manipulation is because it takes something that we see everyday and he turns it into something new and exciting. This one looks like he was inspired by rollercoasters. Taking driving to a new level. I think that this one was deffinitly geared toward a client. You can tell that he was selling a product, or an idea.
Eduardo Rodrigues
http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/inspiration/photo-manipulation-art/
Also known as nkray is a 22 year old graphic and web designer from Barcelos, Portugal.
I searched and searched for more info on this guy but can only find the same little bit of info, I guess that has to do with the fact that he is only 22. Well none the less I think he is very talented and his work is amazing. What I like the most about his work is that each piece was a little different. I didn't find anything that was too repetitive. I also like the fact that he work with photos and graphics and wording.
Pierre Beteille
http://www.pierrebeteille.com/galerie/#/content/1infos/
He is a web designer, graphic designer and an art director for about 10 years. However now he is dedicating his time to photography and specializing in manipulation. He has his work published in the Times, National Geographic Traveler and many others that I have never heard of. His work has a great deal of humor to it, as you can see in his self portrait work.
Though he is considers himself new to manipulations I think that his work shows a great deal of knowledge. The fact that it something that many people think of or say , like the above image "egg head" is just plain funny and brilliant. It makes you think twice about the sayings that we have in our culture.
Christophe Gilbert
http://www.ba-reps.com/artists/christophe-gilbert/4567#image_290367
He says that he is a self taught photographer, but he learned some of it from working as an assistant to a car photographer in the 80's. I found it interesting that he said advertisement photography is not about how you see something but how you want them to be seen. Photography with a goal. "I try to capture the idea, then look for the best way to improve it into an image. Concepts are my food. And I've got quite a fragile stomach!"
I loved looking through his art work. The one thing that noticed he added to his photos was the aspect of water. Which is cool since capturing water in the way he does is not an easy task, to make it look like it is actually part of the photo and not something that you cut and pasted is pretty challenging. I also chose him because the way he manipulates the photos doesn't appear that he has added many photos together, they appear more life like. A good example is the above image, if you don't stare at it too hard you might think that it is just a piece of silk cloth that she is wrapping around herself.
Erik Almás
http://www.erikalmas.com/
Was born in a small town in Norway and didn't have much photography experience growing up. It wasn't until he came to the US that he really got his hands wet in the field. It was in college that he decided to not go back to his home town and do local sports photography, but to see what else he could do. While living in San Fransisco for the past 13 years he has been working on his own and doing many ads for Toyota, puma, Microsoft and Nike.
Though he does not only do photo manipulations the ones that he does do are pretty cool and you can defiantly tell that he is doing them to sell a product. I feel like his manipulations are selling an idea rather than strictly the product. Like the above image, i feel like he is showing the peaceful adventure that you can have while riding the train.
Jerry Uelsmann
http://www.agallery.com/Pages/photographers/uelsmann.html
“I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.”
I was infatuated by his images. I think that film manipulations are so cool because I think that it takes a bit more knowledge of how things fit together and a clear concept has to be formed before you start. I also feel like it would take a lot of patience to get the image just right. I know that developing just one image can be a task at times so I can only imagine how hard it is to combine several ones and get it as crisp and clean as he does. I think the other reason as to why I was drawn to his work was because I felt like I was entering some weird dimension.
Maggie Taylor
http://www.maggietaylor.com/
She produces prints by scanning objects into a computer using a flatbed scanner,then layering and manipulating these images using Adobe Photoshop into a surrealistic montage. She received her BA degree from Yale in philosophy in 1983 and MFA in photography in1987 from the University of Florida. She did not start out doing digital/computer altered images at the beginning of her career. She started out with still life photography. She has also made a few books that showcase her works. Each book is based off a different theme and yet they all seem to be connected in a way. Her style is very unique and easily identified with her.
I really liked looking through her work. I had seen it in a few books but had not really stoped to look at them. What I really like about her work is that if you just do a fast glance they have a painter feel to them. I would say that she uses the filters and textures in photosop brilliantly! Sometimes I think that you can go a bit too far in photoshop but I like her technique and the effect that it gives her images. It almost appears that you can rub it and feel each texture.
Melody Postma
http://www.lanouefineart.com/artists.php?artist=39§ion=B
She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in illustration in 1988. She continues to live and work in Georgia, showing her work in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Denver and Naples Fl. Her works are a multi-layered evolution of vivid color, playful shapes, textural fragments and long forgotten photographic images of nonchalant figures. Each layer is a moment, a new thought, sometimes revealing of what came before and at other times hidden as the momentum continues.
" Simply taking you on a journey by offering snapshots of information buried along the way."
Her work almost looks as though she is doing different layers of image transfers. To me it looks like instead of digital layering that she is starting with one image and layering it ontop of another and then adding paint or some other medium, the reason as to why I say this is because some parts look weathered and ripped, which happens in image transfering. I dont think I have seen anyone else get quite the effect that she does. It would be cool to see what each layer lookes like before she merges them down into what we see.
Petros Chrisostomou
http://www.petrosc.com/aboutpetrosc.php
He photographs small-scale, ordinary, ephemeral objects in architectural models that he constructs himself, and then dramatically arranges, often employing lighting and staging conventions of the theatre. With the alteration of scale and reversal of the relation between object and environment, between imaginary and real space, his photographs challenge the viewer's visual certainties. The illusionary effect he achieves highlights the artist's playful approach, which fluctuates between mimicry of the real world and construction of a surreallistic reality.
"i’m in the connection between the real and the unreal, the physical and the non -physical"
I thought that his manipulations were interesting. Taking something that is normal to many of us and making it larger than life is pretty sweet. The other part that caught my eye was the surrounding rooms. Like the above image, he placed them in simple clean cut rooms, making the shoes stand out even more and appear to be an instalation. However some of them he places in warn down looking rooms which gives it more of strange weird world look.
Lissy Elle
http://trendland.net/?s=photo+manipulation
Canadian photographer who creates magical, paused in motion surreal photos. She plays with the subject, likes to change the rules of gravity and use smart props, location and digital manipulation. Her dreamy photographs are certainly pleasing on the eye, taking you off somewhere for a moment but the world within these images has also an air of mystery.
" I am someone who likes to pretend that I don’t care what other people think of me. I like to pretend that I make my art for ME, and no one else. But there comes a point in every artist’s life that they crave recognition. Admit it. Be not ashamed. This is only human."
I really enjoyed looking through her works. I find the fact that she does a lot of gravity defied images is pretty interesting. It is deffinatly something new and interesting. The other reason that I liked the image above was because I thought that it was funny that the characters were getting sucked into the books. Something that I wish would really happen sometimes, specially when you are really into the book, another reason I chose the one with Harry Potter because I love that series and would love to get sucked into the book once in a while.
Paul Thulin
http://www.paulthulin.com/
He was born and currently resides in Virginia. He got his MFA from VCU and an API National Graduate. He is presently the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Photography and Film at VCU. He is currently working a serries called "Machines," a series inspired to visually explore a futuristic vision of American studies scholar Leo Marx’s theory of the “machine in the garden”. The images reveal a "middle landscape"; nature existing in a seemingly contradictory state of lush untamed wilderness while under the dominion of a mechanized society. "Machines" is created through a process of photographic digital assembly. Each image comprises of a fusing of multiple details from my extensive personal archive of analog and
digital photos representing the American landscape, thrift store trinkets, industrial forms, animals and people.
I really like looking through his work, I am not sure that I understand all of the Machines in the images, but to me it just makes me sit there and look at the image longer than I probably would if I knew what they were. I also like the contrast in the machines vs the beautiful landscapes. To me the clean landscapes make the machines pop out more. It also makes you feel like the machines are taking over the beautiful landscape. If you think about for example where your house is and what it use to look like before it was there it does seem like machines and man made things are taking over the natural beauty that is earth.
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