Photo-Graphic-Ti !

Graphic subjects have always a strong photographic challenge over the years, the decades and... the centuries!
It may be because, in part, photography has been done originally in black and white (before the color event) and the graphic representations were catchier in term of contrast and form than other subjects like humans, animals, etc.
It may be also because of the more segmented light distribution that was enhancing the impact of the taking picture.
It may be the "static" of the graphic subjects that make easer to produce these types of photographs.


All these reasons and surely others have contributed to the popularity of this specific subject and of the photography practice in general.

There are many ways to do graphic subjects depending what is your purpose you intend to do. For example, architectural photography is a difficult art to perform that involve a good study of the localization and the position of the subject and a good control of the light and a good respect for the proportions to render. So, graphic photography is not so simple that we may first think. And there is emotion involved too.

Graphic representations are also a cultural testimony over time of the communities and the civilizations. The more "primitive" ones are surely the ancient graffities printed or carved on rock walls or on wood pieces. Today’s we can find them everywhere around the planet and over the walls of our material civilization! A part of the graphic representation has a great iconic value with universal themes used for many applications even through our Internet communication.

Graphic are not only a linear testimony; it can be an assembly of different density masses that will compose the context of our picture. That remark can go also for the edge exactitude of the subject(s) involved in our image. In one word, graphic doesn't always mean precision, or fine edges or even the greatest resolution. It is also a matter of personal impression face to iconography representation. The significant of a picture find its way through our mind and our imagination.

Everybody got their individual interpretation of esthetic which differs greatly between us. So graphic can be provocative (get impact), can be highly destabilizing and can exceed our comfort zone. What is more boring than a perfect picture, an image made for existing and accepted standards but without provocative originality that push the limits.

So, what about the Photo-Graphic-Ti? Is it a line, is it a form, is it a texture, is it a color, is it a subject? It is up to you to tell me what it is!