Project 3-Elizabeth Carmel

When comparing my landscape work to another photographer I chose Elizabeth Carmel. Elizabeth Carmel specializes in unique, expressive landscapes and waterscapes. Carmel has had photos displayed at the California Museum of Photography and the Nevada Museum of Art as well as many galleries and private collections throughout the United States. In 2006 Elizabeth published a book of her photography titled “Brilliant Waters, Portraits of Lake Tahoe, Yosemite and the High Sierra”. She has been featured in many well known magazines and was one of 12 photographers in the world selected as a Hasselblad Master Photographer in 2006.

Elizabeth Carmel changes the perspective of a photograph, often times with an unusual angle or low camera elevation. Without the use of buildings, the scale of the landscape gives the viewer a different perspective.
The reason I had chosen Carmel was because she creates images that link us to feelings and perceptions we may not access regularly in our daily lives. I feel my set of landscape photos does this as well as provides us with a little relaxation from our everyday schedule. Carmel feels photographs are a gateway through habitual thinking to a larger perspective. Much of her work is very balanced, almost a mirror image like the photo below.




She has traveled all over the world; a few titles of her current collections are South West, High Sierra, Alaska, and Pacific Coast. I have found that South West is my favorite. It is interesting to look at a photo not knowing what scale the subject is, although it looks massive, many of her photos are of an unusual scale, or taken from a unique angle. This adds a lot of interest to the photos of Elizabeth Carmel. More work of Elizabeth Carmel can be located at:
http://www.elizabethcarmel.com/Articles.asp?ID=142