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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
My relationship with Photography
I kept asking myself, what can a photo add to text, to my
language? I have now realized that this is just the beginning. Soon I can start
using photography to translate how I see the world and make up for the space
between the words. I look at things differently now. I look at light and
composition. I look for creative and new ways to look at things and to capture
them in ways that are innovative with a machine that is now accessible to
everyone. I do not feel I have achieved this goal yet, but I believe that I now
will have to ability and willingness to start taking the steps toward this
realization.
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely
players” –Shakespeare
The world once again for me is a stage, everything has the
ability to be a beautiful shot, and everything is an artistic medium.
Inspiration is flowing readily in the streets as the people walking them, the
people themselves the bricks they walk, the food they eat. Everything is open
and ready to be received by the willing eye. I can now look at the world and
see it as for the first time.
I believe poetry is a form of archive. The body is an archive.
The self is an archive with the medium of word to describe and be the
immortality of history.
Photography is an archive. With poetry I can help create the
archive of mediums and using both I cannot even wait to experiment and see what
needs to be expressed come to fruition.
Photography used to be an embarrassing thing my father did
when he went on trips or vacations, now I see it as a lingual tool, a
translator, a lifter of veils, an art form. It is capturing what we all want to
see but is too afraid to try.
Photography is travel transported into a single frame.
It reminds us to stay humble and to keep our eyes open and
be ready for the motion of the earth below our feet.
the camera is the life lines we all have in our palms and
forget to listen to, we forget to see.
Subject Painted and Photographed (a conversation)
interpretation
representation
always
the prevalent
action
straight shot single eye
Portrait can always portray
the portrayal with the distance
between the strokes
of which the artist lives within
the truth is always assumed to be late
or left behind
A photograph can get forgotten
the moment is present
is here
is now
I missed you
overlooked
the seduction of the lenses
always subtle
The subject
is the medium
truth is forced upon the audience
a new meaning can came
from many angles
levels of attention can be shifted
with control
layers of intrusion
of subject
the artist faded and saturated
made into the scene
itself
Lets be seduced by art
and blend with the motion
fixed
memorialize the flow of time
and capture the
movement standing still
this is a dialog
between the past
and the present
with titillation
vibrating the fibers of
portrait.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Responding to a Photograph
Jean-Francois Lecourt, Shot into the Camera
“To understand our world we need to experience it”
breaking the
shooting the
light bled in
the shattered glass
emblazoned
action
Time is breaking
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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