DeadPan and contemporary

DeadPan is when an image, created for a gallery is aethetically cool, detached and sharp.  The results can be breathtaking, especially when the images are engaging us with emotion. Deadpan became very popular in the 1990's particularly with landscape and architectural subjects. Deadpan offers an alternative to painting and contemporary photography is taking over. Nowadays we have, more photography going on the walls of galleries than ever. In years to come there’ll be more photography than paintings. Our world is changing and technology changes too. I see it no differently to classical paintings becoming more abstract as years go by. When there was no digital photography and there were few professional photographers. The work was original but no it seems that every idea has already been taken. Contemporary art photography allows us to be more experimental and come up with something different no matter how strange the idea is. It seems the stranger the approach the more successful it is. Contemporary photography still has a narrative and is similar in some ways to Cinema. I think that if you stage an idea you can come up with something and present it in a way that is yours. For me, there are too many portraits around that are too similar. I like to see something different, unusual, something that makes me go wow I wish I’d come up with that Idea.

http://www.contemporaryworks.net/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3589720/The-new-passion-for-deadpan.html