Category: Art

The complete photography guide to shooting in museums and galleries

Daniela Bowker

I dropped into the British Museum on Monday and spent a few hours in the Mesopotamian galleries with a brief flit through the Greek and Roman rooms, too. I don’t often take photos in museums—that’s mostly the subject of another article—but there were plenty of people using their phones to take photos of the artefacts […]

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Sigma Adds 85mm f/1.4 Lens to “Art” Line

Eric Reagan

Sigma recently announced a new 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens to add to a powerful line of primes, alongside the existing 20mm f/1.4, 24mm f/1.4, 50mm f/1.4 and 35mm f/1.4 Art lenses. The much-anticipated 85mm f/1.4 Art lens improves on the optics and AF system of its predecessor, while adding full-time manual focus and the new […]

Thinking about closed and open form pictures; or how old art history terms can still be useful

Daniela Bowker

If you were to mention the term ‘formal analysis’ to an art historian today, you’d probably be told it’s passé. No one really tries to objectively compare one painting against another using formal concepts anymore. However, formal analysis—or the concepts that it identified—does still present some interesting ideas, especially for photographers. Swiss art historian Heinrich […]

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Leaked photos reveal Sigma is set to release fast 50-100mm f/1.8 Art lens

Gannon Burgett

Sigma already has a steady collection of ‘Art’ lenses on the market, but it looks like they have a few more up their sleeves for 2016. According to newly leaked photos and information, Sigma is set to release a 50–100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art lens on February 23rd, 2016. As can be seen in the […]

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The history of photography, explained in 5 minutes

Gannon Burgett

Photography might be a young art for all intents and purposes, but that doesn’t mean its history is anything less than complicated. Thankfully, if you don’t care to take a semster-long course on how photography came to be, COOPH has created a helpful video that breaks down the history of photography in just five minutes. […]

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Sigma announced the world’s first full frame 20mm f/1.4 lens, but it’s not all roses

Liron Samuels

As expected, the rumors about the 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens turned out to be true and Sigma announced the world’s first full frame lens of this focal length and aperture. Quality wise the lens seems to fit in perfectly with the rest of the company’s excellent line of Art primes, and it will […]

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