This is Contemporary Modern Fine Art Photography is a collection of the photographic work of American art photographer Jesse Ross.
In 2005 I woke up one morning on a beach in Omiš, Croatia, to discover that a second entire collection of my photography work had been stolen as I slept. Omiš, fittingly, had been a notorious pirate village in its early days.
I had been making work exclusively in black and white for nearly 10 years, focusing on rich tonalities based on Ansel Adams' Zone system, mostly dealing with abstract visual design and contrast (Cross, Skybridge). During the ensuing months of that year I slowly realized that I had a unique opportunity to make pictures in a way that I had always subliminally wanted and I had always wanted to paint.
I found that by blurring the images I could spread the colors found in these works. The blur also firmly grounds these photographic paintings in Modern art historical perspective where the attempt at third dimensionality gave way to flatness, thus allowing the reality of the artist's expression to usurp the unreality of the scene.
In 2010 the blurred theme has come from flower abstract arrangements, through still lifes and landscapes and architectural studies, all the way to blurred expressionist portraits. The black and white has also been visited with the touch of soft focus as in Mosque, and Woman with Seagull.
The straight black and white has also been resurrected in bold contrast in the Starbucks Shadows Series, and Garden Shadows Series with an occasional revisitation of early photographic influences.
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