I've just gone live with my completely revamped commercial website:

samdobrowphotography.com

All my personal work and fine art photography will be presented on a different site in the next several weeks. I think it is important to differentiate commercial photography from personal and fine art photography.

Your comments on the new site are welcome and encouraged.

The fine art book, "Iconic Figures" by Sam Dobrow, printed and produced as fine art prints, is now available and can be previewed and purchased online. Fine art books are one of the most economical means of collecting art. The print quality of this book is of such high standards that pages could be cut out of the book and framed. An entire portfolio of exceptional quality prints can now be purchased and enjoyed in the format of a book at a cost that is less than the price of a single archival print.

Artist Statement

The female figure is a fascinating subject for the artist and photographer. Her soft, round features are magical. Light and shadow define the texture of her skin and sculpt the figure of flesh and muscle on her skeletal form. Through pose, posture, and expression she offers insight to her soul.

Beyond the physical beauty of these subjects is a person, a soul, an erotic being. The women in this book exude a sensual self awareness. They transcend their state of nudity radiating beauty from within.

As a fine art photographer, I take great care to bring dimensional form to the figures I photograph. I shape light to expose my subject with such realism that you can almost touch her. As a portrait photographer my attention focuses deeper. I seek to reveal the woman inside the figure, the woman behind the physical beauty. I capture the moment when she is truly alive in her skin.

This moment is hard to describe, it is something that just happens. It is a moment when the model and photographer are fully engaged in the shoot. Each seems to forget the other is there yet they are both working in synchronicity. Each knows what to do and it happens. Tension is in the air, her robe drops to the floor. She strikes a pose, looks through the lens, and touches the soul of the photographer. The beauty of a woman emerges, the shutter clicks, strobe lights illuminate, and the photographer captures it.

Iconic Figures is my vision of beauty. It is sensual, erotic, and primordial.

Well its time to get back into the swing of things. I've been sitting on the sidelines for quite a while just enjoying the posts from my friends and making a few comments here and there. Looking back on my photography over the past year I see a definite dichotomy developing between my fine art photography and my commercial opportunities. This revelation has me thinking about a redesign for my website. I feel that I need to provide two portals, one for fine art and another for commercial portraiture, fashion, and studio photography.

I love to push the edge with color in my photography but recently I've felt myself being pulled back to monochromatic images, esp sepia toned images. Another interesting thing, when I worked with film I was obsessed with getting the finest grain possible shooting with low ISO films and processing ever so slowly with cold chemicals. Now with digital, I can get images with no grain what so ever, sharp as a tack and guess what... I'm adding back grain typical of 200 ISO film.

Is this a side effect of listening to Hendrix and The Doors?

Building my Internet store [link] has been an adventure and it is now online. More artwork will be posted in the future. Every piece of art offered for sale on my website is an original - personally proofed, printed, signed, matted, and framed. Artwork is available with or without frame.

Please create an account and sign in to view pricing. My deviantArt followers can take advantage of a special 75% discount good during the month of April 2009 by entering the coupon code "dA75". Paypal is available for quick, easy and reliable check out!

If there is something you have seen in my gallery that is not offered in the store, send me a note and I'll make it available to you.

I will be exhibiting one of my images "Girls in Danish Window by Moonlight" [link] at Nude Nite Orlando [link] on Feb 12 - 14. Nude Nite is a juried art exhibit focusing on nude art and eroticism. It is one of the largest art exhibits of its type in the US. My work is one of 200 pieces selected for the exhibit. The work is offered for sale at the exhibit.