Gerald Berghammer

Populus Forest, tree avenue, Austria, black and white art landscape photography

2015

Black and white fine art 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 on Ha...

Black and white fine art panorama landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, limited edition of 10. Trees in the forest in fog and rising sun, Austria. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the back and signed and numbered by Gerald Berghammer, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Printed with 4cm white border. International award winner photographer Gerald Berghammer, born 1975 in Austria. Traveling around the world and capturing the impressions on analog black and white film was always a passion of the internationally successful master photographer Gerald Berghammer. The idea was to go back to analog photography to create images that decelerate, contrary to our fast-paced digital world. During Gerald Berghammer’s master course, analog photography was the subject of his final thesis in 2011. The quality of the images was convincing and laid the foundations for SILVERFINEART. In the years that followed, the matter was intensively studied to create photographic art at the highest level. Besides the craft of photography itself, all negatives were developed by hand in the darkroom. Afterwards the negatives were selected and only those shots which met the high-quality standards of the photographer were included in the portfolio. Due to COVID and its influence on supply chains and logistic and the resulting lack of analog films and developers, Berghammer adapted to the new circumstances and invested in modern medium format...

2015 black and white archival inkjet print on watercolor paper 10 x 15 inches unframed 16.5 x 21.5 inches framed $1250 Photographed in Maine, this black and white archival pigment print by Betsy Weis captures white birch trees in rows. The ordered arrangement evolves into an organic complexity as the trunks spread out into branches. This photograph is available unframed. 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...

Series: ETERNAL All available sizes and editions: 20" x 20" editions of 10 40" x 40" editions of 7 60" x 60" editions of 5 Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryta paper Mounted a...