A surfer and board become two small dark shapes on the crest of a dune.
Most of the photograph belongs to the sky: deep blue overhead, scattered cloud and warmer light gathering towards the setting sun. The dune forms a simple dark line across the bottom of the frame, reducing the landscape to shape.
I like the restraint of this one. Although the surfer establishes the subject, the photograph is really held together by scale, colour and the relationship between that tiny human figure and the enormous sky.
The page also identifies this as a film photograph, which is worth retaining in the Artwork Information.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Surfing Life
Title: Surfer at Sunset, Stockton Bight
Artwork: #0116
Location: Stockton Bight / Stockton Sand Dunes, New South Wales, Australia
Subject: Surfer with surfboard silhouetted on a sand dune
Medium: Colour film photography
Process: Film photography
Format: Landscape
Genre: Fine art surf / coastal landscape photography
Themes: Sunset, surfing, silhouette, sky, scale, landscape
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
A surfer and board become two small dark shapes on the crest of a dune.
Most of the photograph belongs to the sky: deep blue overhead, scattered cloud and warmer light gathering towards the setting sun. The dune forms a simple dark line across the bottom of the frame, reducing the landscape to shape.
I like the restraint of this one. Although the surfer establishes the subject, the photograph is really held together by scale, colour and the relationship between that tiny human figure and the enormous sky.
The page also identifies this as a film photograph, which is worth retaining in the Artwork Information.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Surfing Life
Title: Surfer at Sunset, Stockton Bight
Artwork: #0116
Location: Stockton Bight / Stockton Sand Dunes, New South Wales, Australia
Subject: Surfer with surfboard silhouetted on a sand dune
Medium: Colour film photography
Process: Film photography
Format: Landscape
Genre: Fine art surf / coastal landscape photography
Themes: Sunset, surfing, silhouette, sky, scale, landscape
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
