Gerald Berghammer

Enchanted Forest, foggy, sunny morning, black and white photography, landscape

2013

Enchanted Forest, Austria - no. 11496 Archival pigment ink print, limited edition of 10. Printed on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta. Stamped on the back and signed and numbered by Gera...

Foggy Morning Study 1, Austria - no. 11359 // Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer pri...

Trees and Mist (Black and White Landscape Photo of Forest in Winter in Finland) by Betsy Weis black and white archival inkjet print on watercolor paper 10 x 15 inches unframed 16.5 x 21.5 inches framed $1250 Photographed in Finland, this black and white archival pigment print by Betsy Weis captures trees in the mist during winter. The forest is softened by the snow and mist that envelopes them and there is a serenity despite the cold conditions of this landscape. This photograph is also available unframed for $950. The image measures 10 x 15 inches. 16.5 x 21.5 inches framed $1250 Artist statement: Nature provides the perfect model of beauty, according to Plato and Socrates. In the classical period, something was considered beautiful because it existed in nature; art was secondary. In the 18th Century, the German philosopher Johann Joachim Winckelmann argued against the idea that art imitates life, believing that qualities superior to nature are found in art, specifically, ideal beauty, and “brain-born images”. Neoclassical thought represented that art need not serve any end other than its own existence. For me, beauty is an ideal, nature is real, and art comes from the brain. I take pictures in nature, finding shifting, disparate, and beautiful landscapes. I develop my pictures of trees...

"Foggy Trees" Canada 20 x 30 in / Edition of 6 - $4,500 Also available: 32 x 48 in / Edition of 6 - $7,500 40 x 60 in / Edition of 6 - $10,500 50 x 75 in / Edition of 6 - $15,500...