Jay Ressler • Artist

Jay Ressler • Artist

Artistic Images and Sometimes Commentary

  • No. 8, False Color Infrared Photograph, Shanghai
  • Base of the Radio Tower, False Color Infrared
  • Radio Tower Base, Infrared Photograph, Shanghai
  • Head in the Clouds, Infrared Photograph
  • Monument to the Peoples Heroes, Infrared Photograph, The Bund, Shanghai, China
  • Infrared Photograph, Shanghai, China. Living sculpture for 70th Anniversary of founding of the Peoples Republic of China
  • Glass cocoon-like Subway Entrance, Shanghai. Infrared Photograph
  • Tall Building, Shanghai. Infrared Photograph
  • Dilapidated Structure, Old Shanghai. Many of the old buildings in Old Shanghai are being levelled to make way for new construction.
  • High Rise building peeks through skyline behind ancient Pagoda
  • Tree and High Rise
  • Infrared Photo, Shanghai
  • Two Dragons above the entrance to a restaurant in Shanghai
Black and White China Infrared Shanghai 

No. 3. Shanghai Infrareds

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This is a series of infrared studies captured in Shanghai, China last year.

Shanghai, like much of China, has undergone profound changes during the last few decades. Old Shanghai is quickly disappearing as new tall buildings rise from the dust of the wrecking ball.

These photos provide contrasts of ancient structures that are being preserved for cultural reasons with the new glass and steel symbols of the country’s new prosperity.

 

Jay M. Ressler

Jay Ressler Composite Photography, Encaustic Art, and Oil Painting He is an outstanding location photographer and painter, with an eye that can capture the soul of a Havana back street as beautifully as the sip of a hungry hummingbird, often with compelling black and white images. Jay Ressler is best known for artistic expression that lives in layers between opposites. “I like to explore boundaries,” he explains. “Boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious, between reality and imagination, between certainty and skepticism.” He does this by compositing his own photography in multiple layers to produce stunningly original, interleaved images. Using Photoshop, other image manipulation software and a variety of digital effects, he paints one photographic layer on top of another. He takes advantage of textures he's captured along with an array of processes for manipulating light, contrast, and color to tell the story. “Distorting and reinterpreting the literal 'machine moments' captured by the camera is as old as the art of photography,” he insists. Jay occasionally extends his multi-layered approach to encaustic mixed media creations. Based on ancient techniques, the process begins with cooking his own recipes of beeswax and damar resin and applying this medium between the layers of photographic images, along with various pigmented compounds and materials to add color, texture and expression. Either way, the results are riveting. The viewer is drawn into an unfolding, dreamlike scene that might be heart-warming, haunting, gritty, poignant or magical. Sometimes, within the various layers, all of the above. The award-winning photographer/artist has many dimensions himself. He studied advanced digital photography at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and advanced encaustic techniques with leading instructors in the field. He worked as an underground coal miner, steelworker, machinist, labor and civil rights activist, copywriter and commercial printer. He has a BS in Psychology from Albright College.

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