Sarah Newman Photography
Sarah Newman Photography is an artist website, allowing an audience to discover new and innovative fine art photography. Sarah Newman and Dylan Kinnett launched the website publicly in the spring of 2006.
Sarah Newman and Dylan Kinnett designed this photography website together: the color scheme, logo/branding, and interface design, as well as HTML/CSS development. The photography is all Sarah, and selected from various collections of photographs developed during her life’s work.
Sarah Newman’s photographic work spans various subjects and media. Her roots are in traditional 35-millimeter black and white photography, but her exploration of the medium includes medium and large format, color, digital, and non-silver processes including platinum, gum-dichromate, and Van Dyke. Sarah Newman also creates photo-installations, in which she combines three-dimensional spaces with traditionally two-dimensional photographic images. Sarah’s interest in wide-ranging visual ideas and subject matter explains the extensive variety in her portfolio.
Of particular interest are Sarah’s “Frosting Paintingsâ€. The Frosting Paintings are a series of photographs of paintings made with cake frosting. This series, explores the line that distinguishes painting from photography by creating a new process that falls into neither one medium nor the other. Sarah paints clear plastic acetate, using six different colors of translucent frosting-gel. Then, she back-lights the paintings by placing the acetate on a light-table, and photographs the paintings with the light passing through them. The colors you see are true to the appearance of the back-lit paintings. The images—which are neither purely photographic nor purely painterly, but instead a (perhaps corrupt) hybrid of the two—create new and ambiguous spaces that invite individual interpretation.
The salient feature of the SarahNewmanPhotography.com website is its simplicity — the main idea is the photography, and the photography speaks for itself. The result is an immediate, accessible, and usable introduction to Sarah’s stunning photographs.