Domenico Foschi
I believe Art has many functions, among which being a vehicle which allows us to explore
our own and the Universal truth .
An artist also has the duty to support the statement that beauty has infinite facets
and that light and acceptance are the necessary ingredients to reveal beauty in everything and in every aspect of life , as horrible as they may be .
Eyes are deceiving, truth lies in the heart.
This is my signature statement in my website.
My photography is strictly influenced by memories, life experiences. The images are road-
maps to my inner world , sometime testimonials of a found past , sometime symptoms
of roads yet to explore .
Although I do use modern lenses which provide a sharp rendition of the subject, I
prefer to work mainly with old brass lenses dated around 1860's . These tools, because of their optical design , help me to achieve mood to my images . Areas out of focus carry an important weight in my work: they are the equivalent in poetry of reading between the lines, they open the doors to an unknown imagery , where shapes, although still being vaguely familiar , challenge and at the same time lure us to a softer and exciting world .
These tools, together with the use of large format cameras ( 4 x 5 , 8 x 10 ) , and the shooting and printing techniques employed, act as filters through which the image is born .
I challenge myself in tackling every different portfolio by means of different techniques.
The motivation for this approach is that I find the world of photography excitingly
vast and getting stuck in one look or technique would be gimmicky and unchallenging .
Artist bio
Domenico Foschi was born in Bari , Italy , in 1962 .
Although always exploring different kinds of creative media since childhood , he
found that photography would be what he would stick with for many years to co-
me , after stealing his brother's camera for a short trip . He was nineteen at the time.
Not being able to afford a formal education in photography, he started to
study the work of the masters in books . He found the expressive power of the work
of Alvin Langdon Coburn , Kertesz , Steichen , Stieglitz , Strand , Sander , Penn . Avedon , Mapplethorpe and a few others , of pivotal importance to his direction as a Fine Art photographer . Working in the Sergio Guidetti Studio Fotografico, he received "hands on " training from wet plate processes , to the use of large format cameras , to developing and printing techniques .
He then worked as a freelance commercial photographer in Ravenna, his home-town, shooting primarily for magazines , newspapers , the City Administration and
political parties . Soon he realized that commercial photography wasn't going to
allow him to explore his creativity in a more personal way .
D, F. moved in the U. S. in 1989. Here he has produced six different portfolios.
ranging from portraits , to Urban Landscapes , to Still Life to images of cemeteries statuaries . His commercial work took a direction on his own, mainly by
producing CD covers for recording artists .
D. F. has won awards and honorable mentions for his Fine Art work and his images
are in collections throughout the U, S. as well Europe and Latin America .
Domenico Foschi was born in Bari , Italy , in 1962 .
Although always exploring different kinds of creative media since childhood , he
found that photography would be what he would stick with for many years to co-
me , after stealing his brother's camera for a short trip . He was nineteen at the time.
Not being able to afford a formal education in photography, he started to
study the work of the masters in books . He found the expressive power of the wo-
rk of Alvin Langdon Coburn , Kertesz , Steichen , Stieglitz , Strand , Sander , Penn . Avedon , Mapplethorpe and a few others , of pivotal importance to his direction as a Fine Art photographer . Working in the Sergio Guidetti Studio Fotografico, he received "hands on " training from wet plate processes , to the use of large format cameras , to developing and printing techniques .
He then worked as a freelance commercial photographer in Ravenna, his home-town, shooting primarily for magazines , newspapers , the City Administration and
political parties . Soon he realized that commercial photography wasn't going to
allow him to explore his creativity in a more personal way .
D, F. moved in the U. S. in 1989. Here he has produced six different portfolios.
ranging from portraits , to Urban Landscapes , to Still Life to images of cemeteries statuaries . His commercial work took a direction on his own, mainly by
producing CD covers for recording artists .
D. F. has won awards and honorable mentions for his Fine Art work and his images
are in collections throughout the U, S. as well Europe and Latin America .
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