if they find your photography will they understand you?

[removed account4]

Whenever an artist\photographer\architect\author&c dies, there always seems to be people who claim to know what he\she was really trying to.say through their "stuff" sometimes they are right sometimes they are wrong
If they found your work ... All of it ... Would they have a.clue where you were coming from?
Are your photographs that obvious or would they get you all.wrong?

 

[pdeeh]

I think they'll be going "Jeez, this guy would just take a picture of anything", as they throw them all in a skip ...

 

[cliveh]

Whenever an artist\photographer\architect\author&c dies, there always seems to be people who claim to know what he\she was really trying to.say through their "stuff" sometimes they are right sometimes they are wrong
If they found your work ... All of it ... Would they have a.clue where you were coming from?
Are your photographs that obvious or would they get you all.wrong?

If you are dead, does it matter?

 

[removed account4]

If you are dead, does it matter?

Because it might matter?

 

[BradS]

If they found your work ... All of it ... Would they have a.clue where you were coming from?

Looking back on some of the stuff I did twenty, thirty years ago...not the snapshots, but the stuff where I was really trying to be 'artistic', I'm not entirely sure that I even know what I was trying to say.


EDIT: It would actually be fun to listne in to some 'expert' analyse that stuff from my past. Maybe then I could 'get inside' my own head...

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Oh, I'm absolutely confident that at least with my male nudes, there would be no doubt about the intent. The urban landscape stuff? dunno. Maybe it's all just glorified travel snapshots anyway and a really expensive waste of time.

 

[Wayne]

People with something to say should learn how to write. People with something to show might consider photography. A picture may speak a thousand words but even a cheap pencil speaks a helluva lot more than that.

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

Not a chance in heck... because each and every one of the photos I've ever taken are fraught with circles of confusion.

 

[gzinsel]

to the original OP, . . . . NO!!!

 

[Sirius Glass]

to the original OP, . . . . NO!!!

I agree. ABWOB*!


















* Another Big Waste Of Bandwidth

 

[Vonder]

Me: I seek to understand.

VOID: What is this understanding of which you speak?

I think it is better to be misunderstood. If people can "get" you then you're no longer a mystery wrapped in an enigma. You're a textbook.

 

[dpurdy]

It is a very very very small percentage of people who actually have something to say that can be understood or miss understood. Most are just working from love of photography and trying to do what they love.

 

[Steve Smith]

Please read the statement below in the event of my death.

I just liked taking pictures of stuff. I wasn't trying to say anything.


Steve.

 

[Jeff Bradford]

The viewer of my photography should be connecting with the subject.

If the viewer sees in that subject a reflection of his own pathos, so be it.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Well, it depends who will find it and what is in the photos.
If images are massive load of barely naked bimbos and cheese sunsets the "understanding" might be massive as well.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Whenever an artist\photographer\architect\author&c dies, there always seems to be people who claim to know what he\she was really trying to.say through their "stuff" sometimes they are right sometimes they are wrong
If they found your work ... All of it ... Would they have a.clue where you were coming from?
Are your photographs that obvious or would they get you all.wrong?

Yhey would know that I was a dirty old man and they would be right;Iwas working on the dirty part all my life and the old part happened automatically.It's a perfect world for me.photographers get older but the models never do;they just get refreshed;seems like an infinite supply.Iknow, Jesus loves you all but, I'm clearly his favorite

 

[DREW WILEY]

I'm assuming that bums will be rummaging thru a dumpster a couple weeks after I've passed away. Some half-empty ketchup bottle will be
leaking down thru the trash, and some ketchup will accidentally spill onto a stack of my mounted prints. One of the bums will take a bite and comment that it's even better than the last tossed-out pizza crust they encountered. Recognition at last!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Ketchup over gelatin prints… mmmm mmmm good!

 

[bsdunek]

Not a chance in heck... because each and every one of the photos I've ever taken are fraught with circles of confusion.

I think that's me too!

 

[Ian Leake]

It's easier to understand someone who is dead because they can't disagree with you.

I think people would understand what I try to say. Whether they would care or not is another question, but not one I worry about

 

[Ghostman]

No, I don't think all of it would be understood as not all of it is understandable. Saying that however, I don't think anything is beyond the extrapolated interpretation of art historians. If you do want to be understood then I maintain that the written word, one's philosophy, needs to accompany the work. Wether it's in the form of a diary, prose, poetry or essay we need to write about what we are doing. We need to write about us, how we're feeling, what we think we're doing. If the image is the effect, we need to document the cause (or vice versa).

The thought of being discovered and 'understood' is not really about our work as much as it is about a yearning for the self to be understood. Understanding, like charity, begins at home. I often look back at my own work, as I'm sure we all do, and think 'What was I thinking? What was I trying to do here?' - and I look at all my little notebooks which are empty and I think 'Why aren't you writing?'

I'm not much interested in recording what exposure I used or what the light meter was thinking (I get the best out of Sunny 16 anyway) but I am interested in what I was feeling at the time and I really ought to be documenting that. I could certainly benefit from an historical guide to the self.

You need to document your journey. Start creating dots that can be joined up to form a tapestry, comprised of both text and image.

 

[DWThomas]

If they find my photography will they understand me? Probably not -- hey, sometimes when I find it I don't understand me!

Photography is some techno-geekery I amuse myself with and enjoy. I do often photograph historical structures and the like, so maybe someone will find something in it they like -- or not -- but they may or may not understand me, and I'm not losing any sleep over it.

"Like wow man -- he liked old rusty stuff!"

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I have posted thousands of posts to cymbalholic and they deleted everyones posts.

I dont know how much APUG cares about my posts or articles.

I dont have money to take photographs and its seems to me , not problem.

But I took few good ones and after 1000 years , herodotos will comment on them.

 

[removed account4]

OP...dunno. You tell me.

nsfw

https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/biography-of-daniel-d-teoli-jr/

I am not a creative type trying to say something. I do social doc work and inject some creativity into the doc work to help garner attention for the pix. But still, the pix is what it is and nothing more.

Some people get enraged over a pix. I tell em, don't make a big deal over it..it is just a GD photo, if you don't like it, move on to the next one.

I wrote a blog post about (xxxx). I don't know what he is trying to say...I don't understand him while he is alive.

https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/photogs-are-a-pretentious-bunch-arent-they/

hi ILMC

i studied art history / architectural history amongst other things
and i think if i were in future and came across all your images
and was to write a critical essay about your work it wouldn't not be very hard.
you are like a anthropologist with a camera or something like that ...

in past few years similar things have been done with vivian maier's images.
all sorts of things have been read into her work, from both an artistic point of view
as well as a psychological perspective. they don't have her "early work" but i am guessing
if they did, it wouldn't be hard to use that to preface the images they found in storage.

john

 

[Rick A]

Not a chance in heck... because each and every one of the photos I've ever taken are fraught with circles of confusion.

Nyuk-nyuk