John Mariana
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST
Photograph that which stirs your heart and excites your mind.
 

As a “Photographic Artist” I depict the world as first seen within my mind.  My heart provides the emotional content.  Color, light, shadows and special relationships are combined to bring you into my world.

My specialty is seeing and presenting the world in my style, in my color palette.

Founding member of the Booth Photography Guild at the Booth Art Museum in Cartersville, GA.
 

My final images may not actually exist in the real world.  The painting artist puts on paper or canvas what he sees and then changes through his style of art. I do the same and refer to my images as Artistic Reality.

  • Conducts numerous workshops nationally and internationally – Scotland, Tuscany, Venice, Florence, Rome.
  • Teaches Classes on Photoshop, Composite Photography, Artistic Enhancements.
  • Tutors one-on-one.
  • Volunteers time to speak at functions, museums and prominent photography groups.
  • Regularly sought by professional photographers for private mentoring.
  • Judges at many photography clubs and exhibitions.
  • Have received numerous awards for large prints.
 

My early fine art training combined with photography gives my fine art prints a unique visual and emotional presentation. In 1980 I began using photography in connection with my fine art background to create color images. By 1984, large format film for large black and white prints became a specialty. Today, digital prints bring a new and different look to my work with primary focus on a unique color palette with visual and emotional presentation. A uniqueness of composition, contrasts, colors and tones comes from formal art training at age 11.

Studies with such noted photographers as Howard Bond, John Sexton and Dan Anderson provided training in the style of photography taught by Ansel Adams in the Owens Valley Workshops. Current works include color prints, black and white prints, warm brown sepia toned prints and hand tinted prints.
 

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Yosemite – Gates of the Valley and El Capitan prints are in permanent collection of Booth Art Museum
  • Three Yosemite prints exhibited in the Booth Art Museum 2016, Ansel Adams Before and After
  • One of the founders of the Booth Photography Guild
  • President of the Chicago Area Camera Clubs Association in 1990. This organization consisted of 40 clubs in the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
  • Chairman of the Chicago Area Photographic School – 1986 to 1990.
  • Co-founded the not-for-profit American Photographic Academy dedicated to Education In The Art Of Photography
  • Founded the Ambient Light Workshops to provide in-the-field education.
  • Curated the Artistic Reality Exhibit – Booth Art Museum
  • Curated the Fine Art Photography Exhibit – Marietta Cobb Museum of Art

 

IN-THE-FIELD WORKSHOPS

  • COSTA RICA – Central and coastal areas including volcanos.
  • YOSEMITE – BODIE GHOST TOWN – MONOLAKE, Northern California and the Sierra Mountains
  • SMOKY MOUNTAINS SPRING – WATERFALLS AND 1900 RUINS
  • SMOKY MOUNTAINS FALL – AUTUMN COLOR
  • MONUMENT VALLEY – MESA VERDE – SHIPROCK, Four corners, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico.
  • THE SOUTHWEST EXPERIENCE, Durango, Taos, Santa Fe, Ghost Ranch, the Great Sand Dunes, Chaco Canyon
  • MESA VERDE ANASAZI RUINS AND BISTI WILDERNESS
  • CHACO CANYON – Native American ruins and artifacts

 

EDUCATIONAL CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

    • CONCEPTS FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPY – SIX WEEK COURSE, 2 HOUR CLASSES EACH WEEK
    • INTERMEDIATE PHOTOSHOP – LAYERS, MASKS AND SELECTIONS
    • EXPRESSIVE BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES AND PRINTING
    • COLOR PRINTS CREATION AND PRINTING

FINE ART BOOKS

Visions of Scotland, 85 pages published in 2008 with dramatic images of churches, abbeys, castles and the whimsical aspects of Scottish life. Presented as a photographic guide through the South Borderlands and the Highlands.

Visions of Italy, 135 pages published in 2008, a beautiful fine art book with impressive images of Venice, Florence, Tuscany and Rome.

 

FINE ART TECHNIQUE BOOKS

      • FINE ART TECHNIQUES VOLUME 2 – PHOTOSHOP FOR IMAGES TO CREATE FINE ART PTINTS
      • FINE ART TECHNIQUES VOLUME 3 – PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUES FOR ARTISTICT EFFECTS
      • FINE ART TECHNIQUES VOLUME 4 – INTERMEDIATE, LAYERS MASKS AND SELECTIONS
      • FINE ART TECHNIQUES VOLUME 5 – DXO SILVER EFEX PRO, FOR BLACK AND WHITE
      • FINE ART TECHNIQUES VOLUME 8 – PHOTOSHP SPECIAL ENHANCEMENTS

 

PRINTS HAVE BEEN EXHIBITED AT THESE FINE ART GALLERIES

      • BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM
      • DOWNTOWN GALLERY, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
      • ROSWELL VISUAL ARTS CENTER, ROSWELL, GEORGIA
      • ROSWELL CULTURAL CENTER, ROSWELL, GEORGIA
      • DOGWOOD ART GALLERY, TYRONE, GEORGIA
      • THE GALLERY AT PAPER MILL, SANDY SPRINGS, GEORGIA
      • SOUTEASTERN FLOWER SHOW PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
      • DEERPATH GALLERY, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS
      • FERN HILL GALLERY, SOUTH AMANA, IOWA
      • NIPERSINK GALLERY, RICHMOND, ILLINOIS
      • OLD COURTHOUSE ARTS CENTER, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS
      • STUDIO OF LONG GROVE, LONGROVE, ILLINOIS