Hello and thank you for visiting my collective site. I am Rich Mann and for the past 52 years I have been recording photographic imagery around the Venice Beach and Los Angeles areas of Southern California and creating fine art painting and drawings in the past. Assembled in the various separate Portfolios (select above) or combined at: http://rvmann.com/section/3912 are some of my favorite photographic and fine art images. Please select and open individual thumbnail icons and scroll for all additional descriptions, dialogues or poetry in these separate "Portfolio" galleries.

"Dreamer" http://rvmann.com/artwork/2689 seen on this premier page symbolizes the need to relax, unwind, examine our existence and justify our motives in this rapidly ever-changing world in which we pass through ever so briefly.

Included within some of these conceptual-compilations is the appearance of lofty clouds. Symbolically, they represent and are interpreted as metaphors for life’s subjective state of mind. They give rise to the ethereal aspirations which depicts our dreams as imaginations embodied by the most wondrous dominion on Earth. They are virtually the "Sheet Music Of The Skies."

"Image-Credibility"
Whether recorded with film or the more contemporary digital formats, these isolated amusements give license to the benefits of viewing and deciphering the truths and visible evidences that are established as records. In everyday reality, life prevails along barely leaving a trace of it's former existence while traveling through time and space. Depicted as visual recordings, these instances interplay between the frozen moments projected to and witnessed by an interested audience of the actual images themselves. Current Grecian terminology translates the common term of photography as "To Write With Light." These Portfolio images are either unaltered documentaries or visionary philosophical perceptions in nature. As ambiguous didactic languages they remain openly clarified, understood and determined by the deciphering imagination of the observer.

Many of these images may be viewed at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/r (For selecting the slideshow, click on the slideshow-symbol on the top right side of the Flickr title page.)

For requesting reproductions of these images for display or exhibition, please contact me at: rvmann@gmail.com or go to the contact icon on these pages.

For links to additional websites, please go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/r
or Google Rich Mann's Art.

Reproductions or collections of this imagery for sale or used in advertising etc. shall exclusively be licensed only by the artist, Rich Mann aka: R. Mann, or Richard Mann.

All imagery is currently copyrighted and registered with the United States Library of Congress in 2012.

For contact or additional information please go to my email address at: rvmann@gmail.com


Enjoy,
Thank you
Rich / Richard / R Mann