Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Lately, I've been working primarily on this kind of work. Because I'm photographing mundane scenes, it is difficult to decipher what is too mundane versus the right amount of mundanity. I'm constantly questioning whether or not I'll find these interesting once I'm finished shooting them. I have no idea what my point is with these; I think it an intuition based thing. It is probably more due to my current obsession with color photographers from the 1970s. Oh well. I'm going to leave for Ireland now. Maybe I'll come back with a new obsession of creating kitschy landscapes.
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"Because I'm photographing mundane scenes, it is difficult to decipher what is too mundane versus the right amount of mundanity."
ReplyDeleteThere isn't a right amount.
"Being in the right place just isn't enough for me as a photographer. I want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, the boring time maybe, and still somehow say something." - Ian Aleksander Adams
If you don't photograph things you are unsure of you are not challenging conventional aesthetics. If Lewis Baltz or Robert Adams never started photographing suburbia and the result of overdevelopment, would we have that genre of photography yet? (Probably, but that's not entirely the point...). Same with Bechers > Gursky, Ruff, Struth, Thomas Demand. And Szarkowski at MOMA embracing snapshot aesthetic, which was viewed as crazy at the time, but now it's a sort of conservative approach and almost considered an extension of formalist mode of photographing. What's unsure today may actually be more relevant than you think and grounds for a new aesthetic convention, so keep shooting. Ultimately your work is all a bout you anyway.
Like the middle one a lot.
Holy crap Jason wrote a lot, and inspiring stuff too! My comment will not be nearly that exciting. I just wanted to tell you I like these all, especially the middle one. Also, enjoy Ireland you lucky duck!
ReplyDeleteI like them all but I REALLY like the middle one. Something about it, can't quite put my finger on it.
ReplyDeletei'm digging the first one, nick.
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