Thursday, August 5, 2010
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Sunday, August 1, 2010
Focus - a theory for shooting from the hip.
Our focal interaction to our environment is se-cumbered, not from the lens of the camera, but from the notion that the image flashes before our eye. Our perception is that millisecond glimpsed. The constant declaration of the human "gaze".
So is it on purpose that we would constantly reproduced the past?
To utilise our imagination, it would be more preferable to capture the present. (There is a negative connotation to this principle of "everything that is produce is done so in the past").
Shooting as one perceives is a effective way of understanding how to visulalise our surroundings and environment.
Shoot from the hip...
"The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organised visual lying". - Terence Donovan
So is it on purpose that we would constantly reproduced the past?
To utilise our imagination, it would be more preferable to capture the present. (There is a negative connotation to this principle of "everything that is produce is done so in the past").
Shooting as one perceives is a effective way of understanding how to visulalise our surroundings and environment.
Shoot from the hip...
"The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organised visual lying". - Terence Donovan
A Rant - regarding a notion of purity in a photo.
The aesthetics of a photo is one of self natural revelation.
A point of view succumbed in the rich history of the Plato's notion of the mimesis. A simple act of copying / replicating of what we see before us. What one tries to achieve is the visualization of, what is (sic), the here and now. A reproduction which can only be assessed by the photographer and not their audience.
It is this cold fusion that, unduly, sets a side photography from all other fields of the arts. Many, believe this is because of the infancy of our craft. But with a history tree reaching the bicentenary. It is far more a critical assumption, that as photographers we are stuck in a periodical notion coined over 2000 years ago.
To modernise Plato's notion "A copy of a copy..."
Research
Jim Kazanjian, Untitled (Implosion), Archival Pigment Print, 2009
Robert Runyon, “Landscape around Point Isabel Railroad”
Testing an Outcome
"A confined space... In this vast place..."
It's been a long time since I have theorised about art and the nature of the photo. One thing that has always been a recurring theme in my art practice is the notion of a confined place. A symbolic presumption that within a given secluded space, there is a much larger, incoherent vantage point for the viewer.
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