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Watergate Peaks Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

David Fonda

United States

Photography, Black & White on Paper

Size: 30 W x 42 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Watergate Peaks celebrates the rhythm and symmetry of the balconies adorning the Watergate Hotel, in Washington, DC. On June 16, 1972, four men rented rooms at the Watergate Hotel and dined on lobster in the hotel restaurant. That night they broke into the Democratic National Committee HQ in the Watergate office building adjacent to the hotel, sparking the Watergate Scandal and the downfall of U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon. Neo-Precisionism Working in the years between the world wars a small, informal group of painters and photographers sought to represent, emulate, and celebrate the ascendance of the machine age, depicting and idealizing the modern industrial landscape. Deemed Precisionists, they reveled in the utilitarian design of the machine age, reducing their subject to graphic elements and finding beauty in composition with a sense of simple perfection, clean in line, plane and light. They sought to portray the objective beauty of the modern world. Now, as an artist working in the digital age, the time is ripe for a new Precisionism, for Neo-Presicionism. Digital capture has enabled the recording of a level of detail and a range of light unattainable with film. Precision is an inherent quality of digital capture and Neo-Precisionism embraces it. A signed and numbered print from a limited edition of 10. Printed with a 2” (5 cm)white border to accommodate framing/mounting and the signature - the actual size of the printed image is 30” x 42” (76 x 107 cm). Beautifully giclée printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm - Matt FineArt Smooth paper. This acid- and lignin-free paper meets ISO 9706 museum quality standards for the highest age resistance and is specially designed for fine art applications. Combined with Epson UltraChrome Pro Inks they meet the highest industry standards for archival life expectancy: 40 years daylight, 200 years in dark. All prints are professionally printed and personally inspected to ensure the highest quality.

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Photography:

Black & White on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:

10

Size:

30 W x 42 H x 0.1 D in

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Composition. It’s an inherent and integral aspect of the two-dimensional arts. In most art forms, composition is a creation of the artist. In photography, limited to using the visible world as it’s palette, that composition must be discovered. The joy of that discovery, of finding beauty in juxtaposition within the frame, is what drives me as an artist. The realization that beauty can be found anywhere, given the right frame and composition, is a constant source of wonder. Beauty is there, waiting to be discovered. I’ve spent my career developing and refining my eye for composition. I earned a Bachelors of Fine Art in Photography from Ohio University in the US. I worked for five years as a photo-journalist shooting every day, followed by stints at commercial, corporate, industrial, architectural, editorial, documentary and portrait photography. In all of the genres I worked in, I always strove for clean, controlled composition and lighting. In creating hundreds-of-thousands of images in nearly every kind of environment, I learned that good composition makes or breaks an image, and that the elements of good composition can be found anywhere. My images revel in composition. Light and line, shape and shadow, tone and texture, and color or the lack of it, all aligned within the frame to form a controlled organization of elements. Regardless of the subject, the visual balance and harmony of elements provide an alluring form on which to rest the eye. Precisionism When I first saw the work of Charles Sheeler, I was immediately drawn to it. His work in the years between the world wars celebrated the ascendance of the machine age, depicting and idealizing the industrial landscape. He and a small, informal group of painters and photographers sought to represent, emulate, and celebrate the exactitude required of the machine age. Deemed Precisionists, they made no attempt at social commentary and generally included no people or signs of human presence. Rather they reveled in the utilitarian design of the machine age, reducing their subject to graphic elements and finding beauty in composition. Subjects were portrayed with a sense of simple perfection, clean in line, plane and light, showing no sign of wear or aging. They sought to portray the objective beauty of the modern world. Neo-Precisionism Now, as an artist working in the digital age, the time is ripe for a new Precisionism, for Neo-Presicionism.

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