{"id":15191,"date":"2016-07-14T17:40:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T21:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=15191"},"modified":"2017-08-17T19:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T23:24:27","slug":"stan-strauss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/stan-strauss\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Strauss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am a traditional photographer that chooses to use digital techniques.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I started with film, but being a computer geek, I naturally migrated to digital. \u00a0The images are what count, no matter the technology. \u00a0My approach to photography is best explained by Ansel Adams. \u00a0Two statements of his are the core of my photography:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Photography is more than a medium for factual communication. \u00a0It is a creative art.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You don&#8217;t take a photograph, you make it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My photographs that I make should require no explanation. \u00a0Subject matter, composition and use of light should provide all the information the viewer needs. \u00a0I feel that the use of the digital darkroom provides me with the tools to create these images that I see in my mind&#8217;s eye. \u00a0Viewers should not have to think about how I created an image, but what the image is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am a traditional photographer that chooses to use digital techniques.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15192,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions\/15192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}