Allen Chinitz Portfolio

This exhibit attempts to explore some aspects of reality and how it can be depicted via the discipline of photography. Originally, photographs were actual depictions of a scene in a moment of time. Photography could be considered to be, perhaps, the purest of the visual arts, as it offers the capability to reproduce the existent reality. However, reality can be external or internal, it can be that which actually exists or is perceived to exist, it can be altered or virtual.

Every photograph or other work of visual art is, in fact, edited from its creation to its completion, ie., the final image. The creator of the piece chooses what to include, what to exclude and how to portray it. Many of the early pioneer photographers, including Ansel Adams, attempted to produce images that reflected, with great precision, the existent reality.