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After Cubism the new movement of Futurism emerged in Italy. It was led by Italian poet, Filippo Marinetti (1876-1944). In a 1909 manifesto, Marinetti angrily introduced this new movement. He wanted to have new art that strived to represent 'violence, energy and boldness,' and to be free from the 'tyranny of… harmony and good taste.' (Fichner: 429). They denounced institutions, and felt they were unimportant to culture. This manifesto was published in French on the front page of the Paris newspaper, Le Figaro on Feb. 20, 1909. In Italy copies were made and sent to leaders throughout the country.

Theories:
In theory, Futurist paintings and sculptures were made to glorify life and the, 'unceasingly and violently transformed by victorious science.' (Fichner: 429). In many Futurist works an influence of Cubism can be seen.
The most important term in Futurism is dynamism. It is the theory which says that 'force or energy is the basic principle of all phenomena.' (Fichner: 429)

Umberto Boccioni, a key figure in this movement said:
'Everything moves, everything runs… owing to the persistence of images on the retina, objects in motion are multiplied, distorted, following one another like waves though space.' (Fichner: 429)

Characteristics:
Characteristics of Futurism include irregular, agitated lines that communicate the energy of movement. Futurists wanted to illustrate images in perpetual motion, and many key Futurists were sculptors.
There was a period of Russian Futurism as well, which was lead by Kazimir Malevich. This movement lasted from 1912-1915. Malevich referred to it as 'Cubo-Futurism.'

Key Artist : : Giacomo Balla
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WHEN THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER MEETS A FLOWER
Not so long ago, I was not interested in taking pictures of people. My passion for many years was trekking to the beautiful places in the world and making art out of nature.

Five or so years ago, I drove 2 ½ hours each way to this beautiful swamp, 30 miles from the other side of Florida and took pictures of this wonderful place. Much to my dismay, when I examined my contact sheets the pictures were out of focus. I was using a Mamiya RB 67 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 format camera which, if used properly gave wonderful images which could be enlarged beyond belief. Without so much as a thought as to the content of the images, I made the same drive as I had the last week and re-shot the same scenes. This time, when the contacts came back, I was glad to see that the shots were in focus. The pictures were none too interesting, but every shot was focused perfectly.

That was a long prelude to discussing the images that accompany this article During the holidays, I went to the American Orchid Society gardens in Delray Beach, Florida with my wife. The flowers were beautiful. When I saw the images I had taken when I arrived home, I immediately realized that my old flower shooting skills were rusty. I had used virtually no depth of field and I did use auto-focus, as I would in shooting dark street scenes. That did not work for the flowers I was shooting and I knew better. The images were focused on some point, sometimes the correct one and sometimes the wrong one. Also, the image was completely in focus about a 1/4 of an inch on either side of the point of focus because of the tiny depth of field on the macro lens I was using combined with the narrow depth of field. I returned the next weekend with my daughter. When I tried to turn on my Nikon D1x, it did not work. I had recharged the battery at home and had left it there. The spare had died a few days before and I did not have a replacement yet. I did have my Canon S50 with me and used it, knowing the pictures would not be right. This time, way too much depth of field, showing background that was unsightly was the problem. You know the rest of the story, back again with my daughter the next day and I shot the flower that I had really liked again. .

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Featured photographers this month are Steve Chong and Huang Kai. Surreal conceptual artists that have the WOW! factor.

have found a comfortable niche in conceptual and surrealistic photography. Perceiving an idea and turning and seeing it materialize is such an exciting process. It is like pointing the camera into the real world but shooting my sub consciousness. I find the role of conceptual and surrealistic photographers is that, they are like a bridge, linking the surrealistic world with the real world. It is their task to bring images from that world into reality.
Motto:It is not what you see, but the way you see it! Steve Chong

I was born in a small town in China. My father who was a teacher brought me to the way of photography. He always used his Richo camera to take photos for me .At that time, I dreamed to become a great professional photographer. The period of studying in college had given me great changes. By magazines and internet, I had a knowledge about fine art photography and saw great images which I had never seen. I was focused by these magic images and attempted to make the similar images.

At 1997, I completed my first image "The garden of trees" .But the late five years,I put my attention to another fileld. In the period, there was no image appeared from my computer. At 2002, I was hired by a company DPNET which focused on digital camera and digital photography. It's obviously a stonemark in my life, I came back and continued to do digital photography which I like to spend all my life to do it.
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