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Chasing Light - Following Ansel Adams' Footsteps
- Thread starter Ian-Barber
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Hi,
I agree: accepting always that Love doesn't always mean Like, Find Attractive or Venerate...
Robert
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I realised, so no problem
When I give talks I discuss approach, style etc. My biggest laugh was a talk in Litchfield Camera Club and a hundred plus audience, while showing my work a moron heckled me when I said it was work in progress for an exhibition, he said galleries don't show photography. At question time I had my revenge, I asked if he'd heard of or been to The Photographers Gallery, Stills,The Side, and quite a few others, but he hadn't but many in the audience had and also been to many as well.The guy owned a camera store.
I think we all meed to know why we make images, my late father who had ZERO interest in any arts and was tone deaf so not even music always used to ask why I'd made various images. He came to an exhibition opening, looked then said I understand now.
What do I mean, sometimes images work better in context with others they tell a story, or make a point. Also the exhibition itself is far more important as a whole than individual images.
It's different ways of working.
Ian
Ian,
You were quite lucky with your heckler, He inadertantly helped you to make a good point. But how curious that he should be in the photography business. Being charitable, perhaps he'd tried to be exhibited and failed.
The difference between a project or series and a group of single images seems to me like the difference between a poem and a dictionary.
The dictionary contains some wonderful words, sure-fire winners in the monthly Fancy Word Competition – palimpsest, inchoate, paradichlorobenzene. The point of a poem is how the words belong together. Nothing fancy about: Wandered, Cloud and Lonely. And yet... The poet will include prepositions which individually seem very dull, until they articulate a sentence. Then they become powerful. (Consider the different implications of "I walked to my home." and "I walked from my home."}
I do understand that this is an imperfect metaphor and it doesn't bear pushing too far. Nor is it an exhortation to make dull pictures. An exhibition may also include some very striking images (20/20 in CC language). The point is that the images reinforce each other.
Footnote: I am using Daffodils because everybody and his dog knows it. It isn't a favourite,
You were quite lucky with your heckler, He inadertantly helped you to make a good point. But how curious that he should be in the photography business. Being charitable, perhaps he'd tried to be exhibited and failed.
The difference between a project or series and a group of single images seems to me like the difference between a poem and a dictionary.
The dictionary contains some wonderful words, sure-fire winners in the monthly Fancy Word Competition – palimpsest, inchoate, paradichlorobenzene. The point of a poem is how the words belong together. Nothing fancy about: Wandered, Cloud and Lonely. And yet... The poet will include prepositions which individually seem very dull, until they articulate a sentence. Then they become powerful. (Consider the different implications of "I walked to my home." and "I walked from my home."}
I do understand that this is an imperfect metaphor and it doesn't bear pushing too far. Nor is it an exhortation to make dull pictures. An exhibition may also include some very striking images (20/20 in CC language). The point is that the images reinforce each other.
Footnote: I am using Daffodils because everybody and his dog knows it. It isn't a favourite,