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Starting at the age of four with the encouragement of my photographer father, my interest in photography has evolved through three home-made conventional darkrooms into digital schemes. Application of the same basic photographic techniques allows me to explore nature, the ultimate art form, and to take glimpses or slices from it, displaying them in various ways in an attempt to provide some insight into it. After all, what we (as artists) attempt to do is represent nature in some medium and to portray all the emotion and sensuality (in terms of the five senses) that is evoked by experiencing it. Along with this experience often comes some intellectual commentary, implicit or explicit. Frequently my intent is to demonstrate that just about everything that is natural has beauty, and that everyday occurrences, being a part of nature, can exude those properties as well. Integral to my theses is the notion of the fluidity of art a among various media and the necessity of the viewer to the overall process of completing the work of art. My photographs have won numerous local, national and international awards and currently are exhibited in Memphis and Germantown, Tennessee.
The purpose of the photography course is to impart to the student a way of looking at the intended subject with the mind and eye in order to create a composition imparting his/her intensions and to carry this through, using digital techniques, ultimately to achieve a print representing these efforts.
You can see more of Norman Soskel’s photographs at: www.memphisthings.com.
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