Kim Keever
Dreamlike Landscapes - Abstract photography
Kim Keever is someone who creates his photographs from scratch. They’re large-scale, impressive shots of color explosions, dreamy landscapes, mysterious twirls and smoke-like masses. They’re actually meticulously hand-made structures consisting of 200-gallon tanks, miniature topographies and water, in which he then dissolves color pigments and applies coloured lights to, in order to create the ephemeral atmospheres we see in his photographs. He must be quick, as these structures will disappear very quickly. As such, Kim Keever’s abstract photography references and is inspired by a broad history of landscape painting, especially that of Romanticism, the Hudson River School and Luminism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNpmHl5eMVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKbo_6BnjY
(start the second link around 13 minutes; you do not have to watch the whole video but pay careful attention to his process as you jump around the video)
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How is space being utilized in this work of art?
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