ARTIST INFORMATION SHEET

Marv Alpert

Background:  Somewhat of a Renaissance man, Marv’s professional titles have included teacher, school psychologist, CEO of his own businesses, graphic artist and photographer.  Several years ago he sold his thriving medical transcription business and has converted his old time hobby of photography into a full time career.

Philosophy:  Photography is a blend of art, emotion, selection, experience, science and timing.  The merging of these factors shapes one’s expression and one’s ability to communicate with an audience.  My hope is that the viewer may see my message or better yet, allow the viewer to look at and around my images to formulate his/her own individual interpretation.  I hope that my selection of color, form, pattern or design enables the viewer to see the photograph in a dynamic way.

Although a photograph is a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional world, the photographer wishes that the viewer can experience texture, climate and feeling of the moment caught on film in a three dimension way.  The photographer is constantly immersed in a multitude of visions, views, angles, and perspectives.  He must select from a multitude of film manufactures, film speeds, lens lengths and apertures, printing media and subject matter.  It is his/her selective process of making decisions, tempered by his/her "feel" for the process that yields the final product.  Out of these infinite selections, I trust that I have chosen the right combinations to bring to you a photograph which stimulates your interest, absorbs you in thought, makes you ask questions or alters your mood or feeling.  

Style: Landscapes, portraits, commercial buildings and homes and wildlife, in color.

Does the artist see a photograph in his mind or does the photographer foresee how it will look as a painting? He merges the antiquity of scenes in Italy with cutting edge graphic design.  His photographs allow one to step back in time to those images that capture the soul of an ancient tranquil time while using modern digital computer technological advances. The process begins, like all good art, in the mind of the maker.  He decides which specific scene to capture on film, which "slice of life" to transform into work that conveys a message or feeling that the artist wants to convey to his viewer.   Marv often feels overwhelmed when shooting his photos in Italy, trying to select the one proper scene or person to photograph from the vast beauty of antiquity in the many picturesque small towns of Italy. 

The style of  Marv's work is Impressionistic.  This soft blending of small strokes or dabs of paint gives his work a calming and natural tone.  Marv says, “My work depends on a conveying of a mood, using photographic lines to paint strokes by choosing the specific digital paintbrushes from a myriad of homemade and commercial digital filters”.  The filters employ user-defined brushes, which vary in size and texture, orientation, angle, color, percentage of coverage and pressure.