Ted Preuss, is an excellent fine art photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs and alternative processes . His subjects include art
nudes to still-life.
nudes to still-life.
Ted is an American self-taught photographer. He picked up his first camera at the age of seven and instantly became obsessed with the nature of the medium. After spending many years photographing during family vacations his passion for photography led to a career as a freelance architectural photographer for a decade in Boston and San Francisco. Preuss decided to take a break from photography and explored the world of furniture design in Chicago. After several years he realized how much he missed photography and decided to seek it out once again, this time as an art form. However, the things that he learned about lines and shapes stayed with him and became an integral part of his art today.
The images he captures have a warm inner beauty with a distinct vintage feel to them. Preuss describes his photographic style as poetic and timeless. His photographic aesthetic is simple elegance. The simplicity is achieved by a synthesis of all of the dimensions of his medium, each one of which he carries to a point of high complexity. Line, light and shape are of equal importance to him; his images evince his balanced appreciation of and concern and respect for the full range of photography's possibilities.
Artist Statement:
“Art and photography have always played a large part in my life. I work solely in black and white with large format cameras. Photography has become the primary method of expressing my creative vision. As an artist, I have always been interested in the human form and its many interpretations.
Through my lens I seek to capture the elegance and natural beauty of the female form. My images are studies in light and form, which blend formal and sensual qualities, radiating the individuality of my subjects through their emotion-laced gestures. I feel my images have captured a warmth inner beauty with a distinct elegance.
I use traditional techniques, including a large format view camera with century old lenses. The process of making prints is as important to me as the practice of creating photographs. I chose platinum-palladium as a medium for its distinct vintage quality and archival properties. Platinum images reveal shadows and dark values beautifully.”
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