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photography architecture life home images gallery 1 gallery 2 gallery 3 exhibitions the drama in things 3 photographers this great diverse city how should we see it emotion in black white and color 15 photographers links terrain gallery the value of objects the beauty of new york city dorothy koppelman aesthetic realism consultant painter chaim koppelman pioneering printmaker teacher ezra stoller eugene atget michael kenna photographs photography life and the opposites library of congress print photographs marcia rackow artist educator aesthetic realism consultant donita ellison art educator aesthetic realism associate luminous lint photography history dienes dienes photography photography by harvey spears henri cartier bresson foundation david m bernstein fine art photography nick brandt on this earth allan michael photography wynn bullock photography about contact menu street address city state zip phone number your custom text here home images gallery 1 gallery 2 gallery 3 exhibitions the drama in things 3 photographers this great diverse city how should we see it emotion in black white and color 15 photographers links terrain gallery the value of objects the beauty of new york city dorothy koppelman aesthetic realism consultant painter chaim koppelman pioneering printmaker teacher ezra stoller eugene atget michael kenna photographs photography life and the opposites library of congress print photographs marcia rackow artist educator aesthetic realism consultant donita ellison art educator aesthetic realism associate luminous lint photography history dienes dienes photography photography by harvey spears henri cartier bresson foundation david m bernstein fine art photography nick brandt on this earth allan michael photography wynn bullock photography about contact view fullsize click on image to enlarge click on image to enlarge welcome to this website which honors the life and art of photographer and architect perry a hall 1937 2012 on its pages you will find selections from his images and his writing about the great kind education aesthetic realism founded by the american poet and critic eli siegel it was the philosophic basis of perry s work as a photographer all beauty mr siegel explained in a landmark principle is a making one of opposites and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves in his photography which often focused on the architecture of new york city perry hall showed his love for the opposites in his writing he made it clear that how richly and deeply opposites are made one in a photograph is the criterion for judging its success and he loved aesthetic realism for teaching him this as a friend and fellow photographer and as an aesthetic realism associate i am proud to share his critical opinion of aesthetic realism and care very much for how he expressed it in the selections to be found on this website his writing has style at its best it is philosophic and casual easygoing and deep with a touch of humor and his images add to the beauty of the world i take great pleasure in giving some of the reasons why there are many approaches to architectural image making in the history of photography there is for example the commercial work of a fine photographer like ezra stoller who found beauty in and immortalized the structures of notable contemporary architects then there are the wonderful images of eugène atget who was passionate to preserve the architectural history of old paris in his photographs he honored the beauty of buildings that were a part of the daily lives of parisians no matter how humble or grand the building or unknown the architect mr hall s images are in the tradition of atget as an architect he worked on large impressive buildings but his photographs most often celebrate the eternal form of ordinary buildings in which people live and sometimes work and i am moved by the way he used light and shadow to reveal that form he liked to use color when photographing buildings which is not unusual but the way he used it is color in photography can tend to accent the surface of things while black white can bring out tonal gradation depth and structure perry s work mingles the qualities of both his work often has a painterly effect that conveys precision of form with warmth not coldness many of his prints are large sometimes 50 or 60 inches across the reason for this i believe was not to impress through size but to be fair to the subject he often showed the back of buildings and structures not usual for an architectural photographer he was interested in what went on below the surf ace behind the façade very few of the photographs shown here were manipulated but he was forthright about his love of photoshop s capabilities also i believe his use of it wasn t clever in the bad sense it was to bring out more fully the power and value of his subject for example his close up girder and ny skyline employ a watercolor effect to show each in its own way structure as suggestive a oneness of hardness and softness something wicked this way comes brings a sense of good and evil as a conscious idea to the photographing of buildings there is also ferocity and gentleness in his work just compare the fiery inferno of silhouette and the pastel quietude of long roofline at the top of this page he delighted in seeing the awry in the orderly and had a sense of humor that made for more meaning and respect not less as in broken warnings mr hall photographed more than buildings as the work on this site shows but he was just beginning to explore the depths of people as a subject when his life ended much too soon i think working in the rain below with its tenderness and mystery was a sign of this new direction i wish he had had more time to explore he was part of a tradition one of many men and women in the history of photography who showed their love for new york city with their cameras as one of them i recommend to every person who wants to understand the beauty of this diverse vibrant complex city a great lecture by eli siegel that perry loved titled new york begins poetically i link to the serialization of it in issues of the right of aesthetic realism to be known with important commentaries on each section by editor and chairman of education ellen reiss in these commentaries ms reiss further places the meaning of the poetic opposites that eli siegel showed are of new york itself her history people and land including sameness and difference much and little wildness and order these are opposites that perry hall as photographer tried to give form to and that we are trying to make sense of in the world and in ourselves perry was my friend for many years i am trying to be exact about the value of his images many of which i consider extraordinary i felt impelled to create this website to honor his meaning and the education that meets the hopes of every person len bernstein statement of perry a hall my initial experience with photography was as an architect documenting buildings under construction while attending classes taught at the aesthetic realism foundation in new york city i began to learn about the opposites in art and life and i learned to see beauty in and began to have sincere emotion about the everyday my work improved and i find my camera now constantly looking for instances of beauty and the powerful relationships of opposites for this i will always be grateful in the dramatic opposites in photography eli siegel the great american poet critic and founder of aesthetic realism writes photography showed something that was beautiful about the world that there was a oneness between light and dark and in any rich photograph the way the two are the same and different is an essential thing photography does dramatize light and shade softness and sharpness foreground and background does dramatize where drama is that is in the surfaces the depths the relations of things while mr siegel s statement may be most apparent in black and white photography it also profoundly applies to color as the colors themselves have their light and dark aspects light and dark are indeed the same and different neither can exist without the other light and dark are also in the emotional content of the image as i took the photo working in the rain i was asking myself what do light and dark say about how a person feels working in the rain outside at night view fullsize softness and sharpness are also revealed through light gentle or radiant and the shadows and the darknesses this light creates this can be controlled on the camera through combinations of sensitivity aperture and shutter speed and now we have the wonders of photoshop to help us along i for one use this tool liberally it is an image that has an effect on the viewer that is important to me not purity of photographic technique as can be seen i prefer a painterly image balancing soft and sharp to the hyper sharpness available with the modern camera drama can often be found in the contrast of foreground and background this can come from the illusory depth and surface on the flat plane of the print created by perspective either linear or aerial a product of light and dark light and shadow can also show relations between things those things both unique and everyday which closely relate to our lives and emotions our hopes light and our fears dark so hurrah for the drama in things both the everyday and the unique and to mr siegel whose thought clearly shows us how to look for and find it ph 2009 summary block this block is invalid please check the block settings and try again featured aenean eu leo quam quisque iaculis facilisis lacinia mauris euismod pellentesque tellus sit amet mollis read more