Gerald Berghammer

Cypress Hill, single Tree, Ireland, black and white photograph, limited edition

2014

Black and white fine art panorama landscape photography. Cypress trees in a hilly landscape in Ireland. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered b...

Black and white fine art long landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions ...

From a series of large scale black & white photographs capturing the ancient flora and dramatic arboretum of California's vast Sierra Nevada mountain landscapes, an homage to photogr...

archival inkjet print on watercolor paper 10 x 13 inches unframed 2016 Photographed in Maine, this black and white archival pigment print by Betsy Weis captures a trees in a meadow. The serenity of the sky and grassy meadow in soft grays are contrasted by the leafy tress in the distance. This photograph is available unframed. The image measures 10 x 13 inches. 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...