At all times I carry with me a small 3.5 x 5.5inch, brown kraft paper covered Moleskine Cahir pocket notebook and while this post is not about notebooks, it is about my notes and thoughts to describe photography while flipping through volume 25.
A good portion of these notations are abstract terms, along with questioning photography itself and then there are even words having nothing to do with photography, they are simply beautiful when strung together.
Many of us are not concerned about history or academic thinking regarding photography, only in obtaining good photographs and there are plenty of magazines covering technical education and rules of composition. What is mostly not covered is critical thinking and content in the abstract.
I look at photography as a personal art form of expression like my abstract paintings and as I seek a deeper understanding of my passion, so I also do with photography. While I am not a scholar of fine art photography, years of visiting museums, galleries or reading a good number of books on the subject, I have formed an opinion. An opinion that is still evolving and keeping pace with the times.
As you read the words, these fragmented sentences, remember they are random moments of lucidity and my words are not absolute, they are after all only opinions.
Word Play
Coded messages Aesthetics
mythologized, personification
general audience, *Tautological
ambiguities inherent, stereotype
hidden ideologies,
photography copies reliable what
it is focused upon but in no way
documents reality.
The anonymity of vernacular
photographs that stand in the way
of greatness.
aestheticizing human suffering
photography as a transparent window
a photograph that has been
manipulated becomes untrustworthy
photography is a method
what is the difference between
unbiassed documentary and a
documentary that persuades, or
are they impossible to separate
—
seeing is skewed/slanted by
strong held opinions
a photographs intrinsic aesthetic
worth.
Reportage isolating
subjective aspect in landscape
[ landscape = the last refuge of
disillusion ] sanctuaries
landscape = the last vestige of
paradise before humans
quality of anonymity
a conviction Romantically
comprehensive cataloging
photographers are historians
visual narratives of moments
observed
aesthetic intricacies of photography
the optical consciousness/conspiracy
surrogate camera = the mirror
cameras surrogate = the mirror
eloquent testimony
even instinct requires thought
—
In our minds we conceptualize
Photography is intrinsic bias
towards representing realistically
reality.
Learning to get lost, is learning
to see
Thought: does photography make
time transparent
portraits are not just faces
There is no such thing as straight
photography
There is no impartiality when
it comes to photography
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