Adam Isler Photography: Featured Galleries and Collections

Transcendental Color

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:34:49 GMT

These photos represent the personal style I'm cultivating. Urban images (mostly in New York) with an abstract quality not, by and large, created in Photoshop. Most of them include an intrusion of the natural into the urban, the random into the ordered and square or haze and mist obscuring the straight and rational. Often the abstraction comes from shooting too close to the subject to see immediately what it is, creating a trompe l'oeil effect. I'm seeking the immanent and transcendent within the mundane, the photographic equivalent of the Joycean epiphany.

Couleurs Locales

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:35:50 GMT

Urban Tree

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:33:40 GMT

I seem to have collected lots of pictures of leaves framed by contrasting or complementary walls

Sidewalks of NY

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:08:41 GMT

Because the camera frame is rectangular, any image with lines parallel or perpendicular to the frame automatically has a composed look to it. That makes these images feel a little like cheating - and yet, pace Mike Johnston who prefers some skew, I find them formally pleasing.

The Street

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:39:16 GMT

Underground

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:17:39 GMT

Broadway Blog

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:21:48 GMT

Pictures of the denizens of Upper Broadway, working and living on the thoroughfare that is the heart of New York for me.

Museums

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:43:23 GMT

Images captured in museums, mostly in NY.

Paris & Giverny: July 2008

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:25:00 GMT

A whirlwind weekend in Paris with a side trip to Giverny in July. Naturellement, I tied to capture something of the couleur locale.

NY in Black & White

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:33:32 GMT

Documenting New York City, mostly

Streetscapes & Architecture

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:07:12 GMT

A miscellany of urban shooting that didn't fit anywhere else: architecture, street scenes and urban panoramas

Landscapes, Still Lifes & Florals

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:59:19 GMT

Pretty pictures, postcards and the like - not my personal style, but decorative

Celebrity

aei4@columbia.edu (Adam Isler Photography) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:12:02 GMT

Well known figures, mostly politicians, mostly from a long time ago...