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Pioneered Fine Art Photography. Made a black hat. Pioneered Cyber Art. Art extraordinaire to collect.

12/08/2026

PARADISAICAL GARDENS by JAMES ELLIOTT 2026. SOMEWHERE around the beginning of the last century art started to get ugly. Lack of talent disguised as achievement. To get around this it was considered 'sophisticated' to appreciate said rubbish. A sort of **ss elegance. Of course the cognoscenti never bought it. I didn't either. This image is pure aesthetics!

28/07/2026

THE CAMERA PORTRAIT 1982 by JAMES ELLIOTT As I write this in 2026 I have never done a photograph with me holding a camera.I always thought it was a bit like photographing a farmer with a tractor. Stating the obvious. So to be clear this was not taken in the mirror or as a selfie. There is another camera in front of the whole scene. A Bronica 645 loaded with Polaroid instant positive negative film which gave a print and a high res negative. it was first published in high end CAMERA magazine in 1982, hence the title. I took the picture AND appeared in the picture by using a long pneumatic shutter release.
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22/07/2026

THE GIRL WHO DRANK LIMEADE THROUGH A STRAW 1979 by JAMES ELLIOTT. Seventies timeless classic. Edition of 9. Cibachrome deluxe. I am pausing the A.I. for a bit. Distance enhances the view. Girl drinking fizzy pop or survival in an alien universe? Great thing about the best art is that it says different things to different people. Bad art says nothing. Neither interpretation was mine. The best art is poetry and it's better not to turn it into prose by explaining it. I never do. www.jameselliott.art

20/06/2026

TROPHY WOMAN by JAMES ELLIOTT 2026 - This was inspired by an encounter with a glamorous lady in a famous London Nightclub.

03/06/2026

SCARLET GLOSS by JAMES ELLIOTT 2026. Having created the first latex photos back in the early 80s by having the garments made (you couldn't buy them anywhere) I created some patterns and manufactured my own. So it makes me smile whenever I see the latest pop princess or whoever strutting their stuff in latex. I made a hobble skirt and a micro skirt in blue and one in black. I also used ciré and polyurethane on lycra. I also smiled at the years worth of 'Letters to the Editor' that ensued (must be a record). So it's interesting over 40 years on to see how it has all been absorbed into culture. The pix went all over the world in high end magazines and launched a zillion imitators. www.jameselliott.com

26/05/2026

SERENITY SUBLIME by 2026 JAMES ELLIOTT. There are two versions of this, equally gorgeous. This one I started in November 2025 and spent a week perfecting it just recently. Sometimes.... just sometimes..... pure aesthetics are enough..... www.jameselliott.com

25/05/2026

JAMES ELLIOTT DESCRIPTION : A journalist once asked Elliott’s muse of 10 years for three words to describe him. Without hesitation she replied "Intense Critical Mad".
Not sure about that but two out of three is not bad..... hahahaha. I think many people conflate highly creative with crazy.......

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16/05/2026

METAL MONUMENTAL by JAMES ELLIOTT 2026. I first created this last year but was never 100% happy with it so I went back to square one and did a completely new version of it. And I also evolved it. In the process I created something far superior. Happy now. www.jameselliott.com.

08/05/2026

THE SOPHISTICATED SIMPLICITY OF ELEGANCE 2026 (evolution 3) by JAMES ELLIOTT - It is better yet in circular form. For a third time I completely reworked this and it is now one of the best I have created. I have withdrawn the original but for my money this is definitely drastically improved. One of the disadvantages of releasing work fast is that each time I look at it, I find ways to improve it. I retouch at the pixel level and often know that what I am doing is going to be noticed by one in a zillion. www.jameselliott.com.

28/04/2026

LOVE'S LEGENDS LOST 2026 (Evolved) by JAMES ELLIOTT. I decided to replace the Mansfield inspired lady for one of my own creation. 30 years ago I created a piece called 'Aphrodite Autogenesis' which was a pioneering piece of computer art (Nobody did computer art back then). I was thinking about this when I created my first AI picture. I knew the legend of Venus rising up from the sea on a shell as the water drops dripping from her body turned into pearls. So I was thinking about Legends, Lies, Myths, Miracles and all that jazz. And thinking about Hollywood legends, walking on the water, parting the waves, all products of the imagination. What a fool believes... So I did this as a large format (36 inch) piece. It looks fantastic huge. Thanks to William Of Stratford for part of the title. I used to read him in the park as a teenager. Friends in Devon thought I was mad. I was also thinking about classical painting.... for some reason. www.jameselliott.com

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