Name of Artist: Joseph Holmes
Dates of Artist’s Life: Born in 1952 (currently still alive)
Personal Background:
Joseph Holmes has been photographing wild landscapes, mainly in color, for 38 years. Holmes attended Berkeley and holds a degree in Conservation of Natural Resources, and is a self-described omnologist. He has spent a great deal of his time in the high country of the Sierra and other wildlands, and spent four years as a seasonal backcountry researcher in Yosemite during the 1970’s. Currently, Holmes lives with his wife and daughter in California.
Style:
Joseph Holmes is known for his colorful natural light landscapes. Holmes’s photographs are full of life and color which makes the viewer feel as if they are right there with him when he was taking the photos. All of his images are of nature and the wild which is very unique style to him for he lived in the wild for quite some time. His images are mainly of trees, leaves, water, or flowers which are directly associated with nature, giving his images a very transcendentalist style.
Philosophy:
For thirty years, Joseph Holmes has been pursuing the ultimate color photographic print making process, and is a color, natural light, landscape photographer. Holmes has a very unique style of capturing wild landscapes through natural light. Holmes also spent a great deal of his time in the high country of the Sierra and other wildlands. Along with his, he took a trip down the Mississippi on a canoe expedition in 1979, where he carried a waterproof box with his own camera inside. This shows the idea of nature incorporated into his photos and where he got his inspiration from. Through this, Holmes is trying to replicate his own life adventures produced in the images that he has photographed.
Influences:
Joseph Holmes has influenced my work in photography in several different ways. He has led me to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors more while I am taking photos. When I am capturing images, I look around and see what catches my eye, and immediately photograph it. Also, Holmes has allowed me to think broaden my horizons and really think about the image before I take it and what it might represent. Nature is a beautiful thing, and we should embrace it in every single way that we can.
Dates of Artist’s Life: Born in 1952 (currently still alive)
Personal Background:
Joseph Holmes has been photographing wild landscapes, mainly in color, for 38 years. Holmes attended Berkeley and holds a degree in Conservation of Natural Resources, and is a self-described omnologist. He has spent a great deal of his time in the high country of the Sierra and other wildlands, and spent four years as a seasonal backcountry researcher in Yosemite during the 1970’s. Currently, Holmes lives with his wife and daughter in California.
Style:
Joseph Holmes is known for his colorful natural light landscapes. Holmes’s photographs are full of life and color which makes the viewer feel as if they are right there with him when he was taking the photos. All of his images are of nature and the wild which is very unique style to him for he lived in the wild for quite some time. His images are mainly of trees, leaves, water, or flowers which are directly associated with nature, giving his images a very transcendentalist style.
Philosophy:
For thirty years, Joseph Holmes has been pursuing the ultimate color photographic print making process, and is a color, natural light, landscape photographer. Holmes has a very unique style of capturing wild landscapes through natural light. Holmes also spent a great deal of his time in the high country of the Sierra and other wildlands. Along with his, he took a trip down the Mississippi on a canoe expedition in 1979, where he carried a waterproof box with his own camera inside. This shows the idea of nature incorporated into his photos and where he got his inspiration from. Through this, Holmes is trying to replicate his own life adventures produced in the images that he has photographed.
Influences:
Joseph Holmes has influenced my work in photography in several different ways. He has led me to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors more while I am taking photos. When I am capturing images, I look around and see what catches my eye, and immediately photograph it. Also, Holmes has allowed me to think broaden my horizons and really think about the image before I take it and what it might represent. Nature is a beautiful thing, and we should embrace it in every single way that we can.