Category Archives: Digital Photography

Sunday morning in Washington Heights, NYC

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Douglas Barkey

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Focusing on my dissertation….

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Friends and anyone following my blog on photography, I have been taking a little break since Spring 2014 in order to finish my EdD dissertation. I expect to be back posting in December, 2014. Thanks for your patience and I … Continue reading →

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VanGogh – I want to have you on my phone!

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Today I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the photography exhibit by Michael Snow, which I will review soon. Afterwards I sat down in front of van Gogh’s painting of sunflowers, but the funny thing was that everyone … Continue reading →

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2014 Sony World Photography Awards – shortlist reviews

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

There were over 140,000 entries to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, so it is a comprehensive world survey of what is going on in photography today and close to a miracle to make the shortlist for the competition! I’ve … Continue reading →

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From 40 plates to 6 billion files – the scale of photography in a digital age

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

In November, 2011, I wrote a short piece on Managing the Image – Sorting through the Catalog that explored some of the key differences for prolific digital photographers between managing an image archive of digital photographs and silver-based negatives. I was … Continue reading →

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Summer announces itself in Richmond with Unbound 2! at Candela Books + Gallery

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Douglas Barkey

It is hard to tell if summer will ever arrive in Richmond, Virginia this year, but a good omen is the announcement of the opening of Unbound2!, the annual summer invitational exhibition at Candela Books + Gallery running July 5 … Continue reading →

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Lets take the digital out of photography

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Douglas Barkey

Ever since the first sensor was mass produced we have been considering and analyzing the differences between the use of film to darken silver grains compared to the use of a CCD to record light. In 2011 I wrote a … Continue reading →

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Landscape Photography – Three Photographers, Three Visions

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Douglas Barkey

(Puche, 2013b) The landscape of nature is like the human figure – it is a subject with endless possibilities for expression. Photographs of the environment can be appreciated simply for their depiction of beauty; they can reveal truths about our … Continue reading →

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Another Artist Banned for Exposing Body in Photographs

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Douglas Barkey

Originally posted on Fotonotes:
Two photographs published by artists of themselves have generated a great deal of controversy recently. The geographic and cultural distance between the two artists is worlds apart, but their response to repression through a photograph and…

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Portfolio Selections – Sabal Rhapsis Rhythm

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Douglas Barkey

From Light Gestures Palm Folio. See more….

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