I've been reading a biography of Robert Doisneau a French photographer. It's interesting and full of the various movements and styles that influenced photography.

But we live in a very different world. Most people have cameras or at a minimum cameras in their phones. All the social networking apps make it easy for people to post their photos. Photography has become a commodity. Some people are no longer just an email address they are people with a face because they've uploaded a picture. Visual is everywhere.

So what makes Tony Karp's Techno-impressionism different. It's not how the image was created. It's not the fact that we use many modern communications channels (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, websites). Our reach is global; we're able to present this eye candy to people all over the world. How do we know that; we have stats.

One can describe Tony Karp's body of work using words like, pictorialism, impressionism, and some we've made us such as Patternism. Its greatest influence is technology. A hundred years from now this will all be taken for granted. But for now as with the first impressionists, it's a hard sell, a long slog up a slippery slope.

We're using the current economic situation to our advantage. The galleries are dying but an artist doesn't really need a gallery to show his work. We're doing it in offices, restaurants and libraries. Far more people have seen Tony's work in the Cascades Library than would have if we just did the show in a gallery. And thousands and thousands have seen it on the web.

Techno-impressionism is something interesting for your eyes to look at. Something interesting for your mind to ponder. Something that makes you stop and think.

All the extraneous information has been removed from the image in this post. This was shot outdoors. The original lighting was provided by nature. It catches your eye, makes you stop and look. Maybe it is because the flowers are so beautiful or you're not be sure if it's a painting or a photo. It's Techno-impressionist art.