Do Photographers Need a College Degree?
If you want to become a professional photographer, a helpful first step is exploring all the educational options available to you. For one, it’s helpful to know what training is required for you to get started. Many aspiring professional photographers often
The Power of Photography
Forty-one years ago, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard sourly prophesied a banal fate for the newly popularized art of photography. “With the daguerreotype,” he observed, “everyone will be able to have their portrait taken formerly it was only the prominent
The Great British Art Tour: from a ceiling alcove, an artist’s quiet gaze
Self Portrait (1900) by Emmeline Cust. Photograph: Dan Wray/National Trust Images Author, editor, translator, and sculptor Emmeline “Nina” Cust was born into Lincolnshire nobility in 1867 and came from a line of inquiring, intellectual women. Her mother, Victoria Welby, was a self-educated
Early John Constable Sketches Spent 200 Years Forgotten in a Family Scrapbook
Today, John Constable’s depictions of gray cumulus clouds; overgrown, verdant foliage; and cow-filled, bucolic pastures rank among England’s most renowned 19th-century landscape paintings. But as Mark Brown notes for the Guardian, the British painter was a bit of a late
Get perfect sunsets every time
When it comes to capturing a sunset sky, it can be very tricky to balance out the exposure. The most vibrant part of the sunset sky is usually the area around the setting sun, but shooting into the sun usually
Archaeologists in Italy Unearth Marble Bust of Rome’s First Emperor, Augustus
Last week, construction workers conducting renovations in Isernia, a town in south-central Italy, unearthed a long-lost portrait of an ancient ruler: namely, a weathered marble head that dates to the days of the Roman Empire. Researchers suspect that the marble figure
5 Lessons from the Renaissance Master
Leonardo da Vinci's drawings were but a few of his many contributions during his lifetime. Often touted as having been one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance, he was a renowned painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, and inventor. (His inventions include
Lessons Learned
Built-in 1920, this Rosenwald School in Hertford County, North Carolina, was later acquired by the Pleasant Plains Baptist Church and has served as a community center and fellowship hall. (Andrew Feiler) Across the South, some 500 modest structures still stand as
Sculpture by Arno Breker one of Hitler’s favourite artists found buried in Berlin museum garden
A marble sculpture of an outsized head by Arno Breker, one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite artists, has been discovered by chance in the garden of Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin, where it was probably buried by US troops 75 years ago. The
Revisiting Magnus Enckell
Magnus Enckell’s body of work is strikingly difficult to categorize. Ranging from the sparse to the utterly fantastical, Enckell’s oeuvre does not fall neatly within one aesthetic movement, but instead, offers themes, revisited in new styles. Among his creations, which are now on view in the Magnus Enckell retrospective at Ateneum, one finds a sepia-toned self-portrait; death marching
