Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?

Objkt.com has a lot of great curated collections, and it's a rabbit hole.

Similar with Highlight:

https://highlight.xyz/explore/curated?period=30d

Here's a guy I found recently that I like:

https://x.com/perfectl00p https://www.reddit.com/user/PERFECTLO0P/?sort=top https://objkt.com/@perfectloop

NFTs are interesting. When they were originally hyped up, I didn't see the point when you could just save the work. But, I've learned to understand them more as 'signed' copies. Also, there's pride in knowing that you sponsored someone before they became known.

Finally, I love generative art. I'm a huge fan. But, too few works appeal to the human condition, and they're often just algorithmic designs.

kiririn7 · 10 months ago

i really like the idea of nfts (despite not owning any) but i feel like there is a problem with the current implementation, i imagine they will be big in the future but not in their current form. humans want to show off their things to get status from them(expensive cars, expensive game items(csgo)) with nfts there is no real way to show them off, the closest thing was profile pictures. im not sure of a good way to solve this, i think zuck said something about putting nfts in your metahouse

afpx · 10 months ago

I have a couple of those digital art frames on my walls, and I load the art into them. One is for landscape aspect ratio, and one is for portrait aspect ratio.

https://www.tcl.com/us/en/products/home-theater/nxtframe-tv/...

Great resource to explore new fine art photography projects and artists is LENSCRATCH https://lenscratch.com/photographers/

But have you explored all of the old ones yet? Magnum has excellent courses, each is a rabbit hole of references and inspiration: https://www.magnumphotos.com/learn/ (personally working through the Alec Soth one atm)

Regarding photobooks, the best way by far is to visit your local brick and mortar book store for a photography section, or find local community place / coffee shop that has these available. Just pick whatever catches your eye! I know some libraries also provide access to photobooks, should be a good resource if you have one nearby.

johnmaguire · 10 months ago

I own a lot of photo books and highly recommend them. Nothing is more inspiring to me. The YouTube channel "The Photo Book Guy" is worth a look too. I also like "The Art of Photography."

The Magnum courses look interesting. Do you find the are generally worth the price? Do they ever go on sale?

https://youtube.com/@photobookguy1380

https://youtube.com/@theartofphotography

smugglerFlynn · 10 months ago

They are quite expensive for the content, given these are not true learning courses, more like well structured and deep interviews. But photo education is very tech(nique) focused nowadays, so I don’t know any good online alternatives that would touch upon the art and creative side of photography, like Magnum does.

smusamashah · 10 months ago

Frank Force for generative coding. He has made lots of clever and nice things. Includes game engine (https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS), a procedural audio lib (https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/ZzFX) lots of stuff on dwitter.net (https://www.dwitter.net/u/KilledByAPixel/top)

Twitter: https://x.com/KilledByAPixel

portfolio in form of webdesktop: https://generative.3d2k.com/

Website: https://frankforce.com/

froober · 10 months ago

I really like the pen plotting art made by Adam Fuhrer. It was posted here a while back. https://adamfuhrer.com/pen-plotting

hansoolo · 10 months ago

Wow! Those are really cool! Thanks.

monokai_nl · 10 months ago

Photography and algorithmic art are exactly my thing. In the past few years, I’ve been deeply exploring generative art, though I prefer calling it "Algorithmic Art" since "generative" is often linked to AI now.

Some of my works can even be drawn with a pen plotter.

Take a look: https://monokai.com

smrtinsert · 10 months ago

Very nice! Nice work grabbing that domain too!