Thursday, September 17, 2015
After the Beatles: A Long Not Winding Road
After strutting about and bloviating about straight photography, it seems the only logical thing I could possibly do is to post an image with lots of post processing.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Paradox
I attempted to explain my core approach to photography visually with the goat image but that may have been incomprehensible or seemed blithe. I went to the image after writing a treatise that was so long that no one would read it. So here it is in its simplest form. Straight photography has an uncanny simulacrum to visual reality but it is full of misleading information. (See Susan Sontang and the many tomes on the topic). This ambiguity and it's surreal implications are best demonstrated and explored in minimally post processed images. The heavily post processed images currently popular risk obscuring the ambiguity and uncertainty by making it plain to the viewer that the image is "photoshopped" and thus (apparently) more a product of the photographers imagination than of visual reality.
Monday, September 14, 2015
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Self Portrait as a Goat
This is a response to the various issues discussed in the comments section for the image below, "Red". It explains my ideas on the relationship of photography to reality and is a statement of my photographic aesthetic. Hint: I am in complete agreement with Cartier-Bresson in the idea that straight photography is much closer to surrealism than it is given credit for.
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
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