Taking pics of everything and nothing.....

gr82bart · Sep 23, 2017

I love the process of how I create my image using film. How slow and methodical it is. Even when I shoot one of my toy cameras, the imperfect serendipity introduced by the tool, still requires some thought, some determination of capture. Photography has been very therapeutic for me. Unlike others, I am loathe to show my work except to a very select few. Honestly I hate scanning. Anyway, making this post is more like a blog entry.

https://www.newyorker.com/business/...ill-photograph-everything-and-look-at-nothing

Regards, Art

pdeeh · Sep 23, 2017

I expect that the ideas expressed in that article won't go down very well with the traditionalists, but yep, photography is changing (has changed already, irrevocably) and must necessarily do so as technology and society changes. Photography is part of society just as any human activity is part of society, and how could it be otherwise?

dasBlute · Sep 23, 2017

I was in the Louvre, in front of the 5 Rembrandt self-portraits. I'd sit for awhile, look at them from a distance,
then walk up and look at each one in turn. It's funny, when you get right up to them, it looks a mess,
all haphazard, almost crude. Then returning to a distance, I'd continually have to admit
that the 'mess' I'd been looking at was as perfect of a representation of the propagation of
light as is possible by the human hand.

After I'd been there looking for a half hour or so, a guy walks up, and with an iphone goes: zip,zip,zip,zip,zip
5 images in 10 secs and walked off.

Theo Sulphate · Sep 23, 2017

gr82bart said:
I love the process of how I create my image using film. How slow and methodical it is. Even when I shoot one of my toy cameras, the imperfect serendipity introduced by the tool, still requires some thought, some determination of capture.
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I'm with you.

Reminds me of this:

"In traditional Japanese aesthetics, Wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

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Alan Edward Klein · Sep 23, 2017

Before the internet, digital and DVD's, I'd make a photo album of a trip, vacation or party shot with film cameras. So now I create slide shows with music, narration, a few video clips, titles, credits, etc and stream them on my 75" UHDTV or post it on YouTube so relatives can view my trip without having to visit me. Well, I'm not sure they actually watch it but I like to believe they do. The point is methods of presentation changes whether it's with my UHDTV or YouTube, or Facebook, or whatever. People are using modern methods to present their art and memorialize and show their lives.

It's all good.

Saganich · Oct 7, 2017

Right. Tech doesn't change the fundamentals of creativity in that one still must take control of their moment. Creativity requires a process to be realized in the world.

Taking pics of everything and nothing.....

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