Photographer Colin Winterbottom documents restorations and renovations as a visual archive
Photographer Colin Winterbottom documents restorations at some of D.C.’s most famous landmarks,including the Capitol Building and the National Cathedral.Photography © 2015 Colin Winterbottom
Colin Winterbottom is an American-based photographer who catches the most sensible shots within an artistic and detailed frame and Winterbottom's works cover New York ,Moscow and Paris' urban captures by revealing some specific humanistic feelings like texture,mood,tensions,sensitivity at the core of his imaginative compositions.Winterbottom's latest work presents a peerless documentary about restorations and renovations by focusing on unapprehended shots at some of D.C.’s most famous landmarks.
The interior of the National Cathedral with scaffolding. This is image is one of 90 in a series on view at the National Building Museum exhibit “Scaling Washington.Photography © 2015 Colin Winterbottom
Recently,Roger Catlin from Washington Post has written an incisive review about Winterbottom's photographs explaining the details of the renovations by combining Winterbottom's artistic perspective through his photographs.Catlin's narrative story titled ''Documentation and renovation, as seen from a scaffold'' about these reflections is so refreshing that everyone can feel the real process during construction in the scaffold.
Photographer Winterbottom followed the moon over the National Mall an hour after moonrise and shot it in alignment with the scaffolding of the Washington Monument.Photography © 2015 Colin Winterbottom
In Catlin's detailed story,he also make a significant analyses between the ''image'' and the ''fine art'' and he clarifies it: ''Architectural photography generally works to minimize distortions, but as a fine-art photographer, I’ll embrace distortions if they help. Put it this way: I’ll trade off accuracy in exchange for expressiveness, if allowing, or incorporating, or indeed eliciting some kind of distortion helps me communicate the sense of the building and a sense of the impact on me, then I will accept that distortion.''
Shadows form a linear pattern on the side of the Washington Monument.Photography © 2015 Colin Winterbottom
Roger Catlin deeply compares the architectural photography and the fine art as a representation over Winterbottom's photographies and compositions and focuses on how Winterbottom distorts the image by playing some shades and shadows to get the best contrast in his frame.You can read the full article from here.
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