I’ve been having a lot of problems with this blog, and a lot of problems with Photography. I’m having problems getting passed Photography’s relationship with deliberation.
I think it’s impossible to come into a project like this and not have a bunch of preconceived notions about this style of art, and what it means to produced that art. For me, it’s been this need to take pictures spontaneously – to capture an image in order to recreate this idea of actuality. Isn’t reality the very thing a photographic image is trying to achieve?
Just finding something that looks nice and taking its picture is not photography, and I’m finding that out. There is something deliberate in every photograph taken, the more I take pictures, the more I’m figuring that out. This is not an organic art that one lucks into – Subject is imperative, but it’s not everything. The truth of that fact is a litter frustrating, because aesthetically, what is a photograph but content in its most basic and consolidated form?
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