Okay, so I'm a little partial to photography as art.
My daughter is a photographer. And she's now working in L.A. See how I used one of her photographs in my own home above my mantel.
I’ve always noticed photography used as art in nautical prints, in vintage type photographs, in personal image galleries, etc. However, what I’ve recently noticed is…
Photographs that have been enlarged, used as dynamic, sensational imagery to evoke an incredible sense of time, place, mood, and spirit — does a brilliant job of creating a setting.
For instance...
The moment you first see this image, you think what?
Masculine, well-traveled, suggesting wanderlust and an adventurous spirit.
Designer: Xander Noori, seen at the Pasadena Showcase House of Design 2018
The moment you first see this image, you think what?
Spicy, hot, and exciting.
Designer: Cullman and Kravis, from the book: From Classic to Contemporary: Decorating with Cullman and Kravis
Have you noticed...
...how large scale photography — photography that stops you in your tracks, makes you think, makes you dream — has begun to infiltrate the market and our homes? I have.
For instance...
At Mecox Gardens — a high end retail furnishings boutique here in Houston — I saw this when out shopping for a client:
At last summer's Las Vegas Market I came across these:
Then, last winter, when I took my daughter to the Dallas Home Furnishings Market, she wanted this one:
Art of any kind can, of course, create a sense of time, place, and setting. But photography…
...is doing it now better than ever!
And it's doing it in an enlarged, gigantic, bold way.
Now that's an experience. And isn't that what art is all about?