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Al Dussault - Biography

Why I photograph -
still life fruit
My photos begin with very classical lines like a still life of a fruit bowl. The photoimpressionism or the new impressionisn that I create has to do with using a wide range of exposures, an extremely deep value to the saturation, and a vivid contrast as if I were working in black and white. The subject matter is either provided by nature as in a still life of everglade grasses or the subject of widely available materials like one might find, for example, on a construction site.
 
surface lillies
two windows
I enjoy the complexity of shadow and hightlights as they occur naturally like in the above photo where the subject is actually the shadow of the object rather than the object itself.
mill stairwel Hope Webbing in transition.

These two images represent an example of the use of the techniques mentioned above. Below is the original subject shot in natural light and the above image is manipulated in photoshop to arrive at a completely different rendition. Hue & saturation is selected totally as a subjective decision or can be decided upon
based on where the piece will be displayed, as in the case of the bright yellow or the magenta and blue.

room in bright yellow
natural light

Photography for me was a medium that I arrived
at late in life. For many years I considered psychoanalysis
to be the art form that I worked in. I used the metaphor that
people arrive at the consultation room as a masterpiece that
time has worn and the tattered and torn were the wounds
of life that happened over time. I saw myself as a restorative artists
working with the idea that it was my job to return the canvas to its
original condition. In relation to Art I considered myself an artist without a
talent...photography, particularly computer generated images,
has given me a means of expressing the values that I live with--
extremes in contrast, depth in saturation, and an exposure
to vivid light.


Albert Dussault
aldussault@cox.net

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