I went home this weekend which worked out really well for this blog. Because we were talking so much this week about memory photography, I thought it would be a good idea to take pictures of things from around my house. The house that I live in currently is the home that I’ve had since I was a little kid - it’s really the house in which I’ve grown up. SO, the images that I photographed are the things (I’m not sure if I’m going to articulate this correctly) which were necessary to the construction of my memories of my house. However, I didn’t want to photograph things to which I had a strong nostalgic connection. What I wanted to do this weeks was to see if I could fabricate that through a photograph.
Two of my photographs are black and white this week. I’ve been getting more and more comfortable working with black and white photography over the weeks, because it’s a less complicated way to present images to an audience. When you’re taking pictures as a photographer, I find that color can sometimes muddle your intent. Additionally, black and white images are more forgiving. Anyway, the black and white photographs add to that feeling aura of memory I was trying to capture. The absence of color in these images, for me, suggests that lapse of time - the black and white is like the tangible evidence of the passing of time, and the realization of time is how we understand memory.
An interesting experiment - in *not* choosing the obvious items of nostalgia (though I wish you'd said more about what these particular images represent, and maybe look for some memories, however hazy, that are represented by them). Interesting what you say about black and white being "more forgiving" - it can be, but it does also demand - I find - a lot of technical exactitude.
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