ARTOGRAPHY - A BRIEF DESCRIPTION

I set out to find the correct name and symbol for my art, researching dictionaries, encyclopedia, and other sources from which none came forth with the precise word. Thus I created one that I felt would give the correct connotation. Art (in the traditional sense of drawing, painting, sculpture) meaning Fine Art, and “ography” from Photography (in the traditional sense meaning the recording of images on sensitized emulsion through exposure to light) meaning expressing ideas on film through the camera gave me the basis for a word that would specifically mean the work (or  Art) that I wanted to do – composing beautiful pictures utilizing the mechanical creation called the camera. The word would be ARTOGRAPHY.

Artography means changing the usual way we express our thoughts about beauty from the painting media in the film media.

In Artography the camera becomes the brush, the film the canvas, the lights the pigment and the photographer emerges as the artist. The final result is a work of artistic merit.

This has been a brief description of Artography, a new approach to Fine Art.