In this video I want to take a look at the photography work of Richard Poousette Dart.

Now this may seem like a little bit of an obscure topic to cover, but it does have an interesting tie-in with some of the stuff we've talked about on the show recently,

namely the New York School of Photographers from the

1940s through the 1960s, as well as Saul Lighter. Richard and Saul were very

close friends. They were both painters and photographers and their work has some

interesting tie-ins and we're going to look at that in just a second.

If you're not familiar with him, Richard Pousette Dart is known today.

He's associated most with the School of Abstract Expressionism that came along in New York in the 1940s through 1960s, maybe in the 70s that included

artists such as V. M. de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, people like that.

His painting work is extremely interesting and it also is interesting that he had a parallel career

for a while as a photographer as well.

One of his first jobs out of college was working for a photo retouch or in New York and it's

interesting to see how working

with everything from spotting to photo manipulation

influenced his work not only as a photographer,

but also as a painter.

His photography is, as you're going to see in a second is a lot of

multi-layered images using multiple exposures kind of the soft printing

technique and then his paintings I probably said best as Pouset Dart used to say that you know images are all made up of little points of light

And when you look at his paintings there's a lot of them have this wonderful pointalistic quality where he was literally dabbing the paint on in these thousands of dots that would make up the larger image.

So I think it's really interesting to see the possibility of photography inspiring and influencing him both as a photographer but also as a painter.

Anyway, none of this means anything

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