honorable mention
Tom Gore canada
title
The Liberated Museum
Following many years of Leicas, Nikons, Contaxes, Hasselblads and Linhoffs, and far too many hours in the darkroom, I became a digital convert and now work with a Nikon D800e, a Fuji X Pro 1 and Photoshop CS6 with plugins including the Nik suite, Eye Candy, the Perfect suite, Portrait Pro and Filter Forge. Please have a look at my own website at https://500px.com/tomgore and my page at Model Mayhem. I work out of a studio in Victoria's historic Chinatown.
My photographs have been published in many magazines and books and a number of them have also won awards. Books that include my work are Object and Image by George M. Craven, Photographic Possibilities by Robert Hirsch, Nude Closeup by EG Irwin and The World's Greatest Erotic Art. I've written two books - An Admiral View - a History of the Landscape Image and The Stereo Show. My essays have been published in many magazines and one received the Photographic Society of America's award for critical writing. I've curated or juried more than fifty exhibitions of photography and I often lecture about the history of the nude and of the portrait. I have received three Canada Council grants. For biographic info see my listings in Who's Who in American Art.
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entry description
The pictures of the Liberated Museum series combine women shot in the studio with backgrounds shot in art museums in America and Europe. The resulting improbabilities are both metaphysical and surreal and are about the frisson between normality and fantasy.about the photographer
For several years after university I was a commercial photographer specializing in fashion and architecture. Ever since I taught creative photography, history of photography, photojournalism and scientific photography at the University of Victoria. The streets of Italy, France and England, the landscape from the Arctic to the tropics, graffiti, images as metaphor and the nude, both in the studio and the landscape are areas of ongoing work, along with my Atget re-photographic project in Paris. Recent work blends elements of the Renaissance and the Surrealists into layered digital hyperreality photographs.Following many years of Leicas, Nikons, Contaxes, Hasselblads and Linhoffs, and far too many hours in the darkroom, I became a digital convert and now work with a Nikon D800e, a Fuji X Pro 1 and Photoshop CS6 with plugins including the Nik suite, Eye Candy, the Perfect suite, Portrait Pro and Filter Forge. Please have a look at my own website at https://500px.com/tomgore and my page at Model Mayhem. I work out of a studio in Victoria's historic Chinatown.
My photographs have been published in many magazines and books and a number of them have also won awards. Books that include my work are Object and Image by George M. Craven, Photographic Possibilities by Robert Hirsch, Nude Closeup by EG Irwin and The World's Greatest Erotic Art. I've written two books - An Admiral View - a History of the Landscape Image and The Stereo Show. My essays have been published in many magazines and one received the Photographic Society of America's award for critical writing. I've curated or juried more than fifty exhibitions of photography and I often lecture about the history of the nude and of the portrait. I have received three Canada Council grants. For biographic info see my listings in Who's Who in American Art.
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