Photo Montages

By admin on March 24, 2013 in photo montages

Digital Icons; Expressions of Belief

These montaged images were created using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The series blends the Eastern Orthodox tradition of icon painting with the graphics style of modern advertising. In Icon Painting geometry and non-Rennaissance perspective and a dense, didactic storytelling format is common. For an excellent exploration of this topic see Egon Sendler’s “The Icon;Images of the Invisible”. For the roots of advertising design search El Lissitzky’s posters of the 1920’s. An online brochure explaining the themes in the exhibit, “Expressions of Belief” is located at this link. ‘Expressions of Belief Exhibit’.

Ho Topos

A related theme runs through this older series of montaged photos. The title of the series, ‘Ho Topos’, references American painter Mark Rothko’s comments about Byzantine church interiors in Ravenna, Italy. In Greek it means, ‘Saints in Glory’. The method for composing the images used non-digital, traditional chemical darkroom methods. Medium format color negatives were layered, enlarged, and printed using the Ilford Ilfo(Ciba)-Chrome chemistry process.

digital-icons

Photo montages created using Photoshop and Illustrator

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Digital Icons in 'Expressions of Belief' Exhibit

Digital montages, reverse UV Inkjet printed on 10mm acrylic
at Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
Полна славы ; ' All is Full of Glory....'

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief', UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
Полна славы ; ' All is Full of Glory....'; Stars, Galaxies

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief', UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
Полна славы ; ' All is Full of Glory....'; closeup

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief', UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
Полна славы ; ' All is Full of Glory....', close-up

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief', UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
Полна славы ; ' All is Full of Glory....', close-up

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief', UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
Полна славы ; ' All is Full of Glory....', close-up

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief', UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
Полна славы ; ' All is Full of Glory....', close-up

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief', UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
При-Дивіть-ся; 'Look Closely!'

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief' exhibit, UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm, credits; NASA/Hubble,
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
При-Дивіть-ся; 'Look Closely!'; Crown
При-Дивіть-ся; 'Look Closely!', close-up of Lamb, Sufi Heart, Locust

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief' exhibit, UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
При-Дивіть-ся; 'Look Closely!', YouTube Rabbi Kaduri

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief' exhibit, UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
При-Дивіть-ся; 'Look Closely!', close-up, Armies

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief' exhibit, UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
При-Дивіть-ся; 'Look Closely!', close-up, Vishnu Reclines on Sesha Ananata, Serpent 'Creator'

Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief' exhibit, UV Inkjet reverse print
on 10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm
Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
При-Дивіть-ся; 'Look Closely!', close-up, Serpent Seraph Nachash

Serpent Seraph, Mount of Sun god Eli-Heli. From Cairo Museum
Digital icon in 'Expressions of Belief' exhibit, UV Inkjet reverse print on
10mm acrylic, 100cm x 95cm, Fulbright Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2012
При-Слушайте-сь; 'Listen Very Closely'

UV Inkjet reverse printed on acrylic, 90cm x 80cm, 2012
credits; NASA/Hubble
При-Слушайте-сь; 'Listen Very Closely'; close-up

UV Inkjet reverse printed on acrylic, 90cm x 80cm, 2012
credits; NASA/Hubble
Ho Topos 1

Color film based image printed on Ilfochrome paper, 11" x 14"
Ho Topos 6

Color film based, composite layered, and printed
on Ilfochrome paper, 11" x 14"
Ho Topos 10

Color film based composite layered, and printed
on Ilfochrome paper, 11" x 14"
Ho Topos 9

From series 'Ho Topos', Ilfochrome color print,
layered montage using traditional film/chemical processes
Ho Topos 4

Color film based composite layered, and printed on Ilfochrome paper, 11" x 14"
Ho Topos 7

Color film based composite layered, and printed
on Ilfochrome paper, 11" x 14"
Light and Ducts

Image built with multtiple strobes and color filters,
printed on Ilfochrome paper, 11" x 14"