He's a professional photographer, these are all his
I like seeing the results of his approach to photography.
I'm used to thinking of photographs as a way of capturing the world out there.
You see something beautiful, you take a beautiful picture, you take the beautiful home with you.
A photograph is just a way of saving a view or an experience for later.
Watching Derek, though, I was struck by how little straight-up capturing he did.
We biked right past sunsets and churches without stopping.
I think good photographers are probably more interested in creating.
Rather than finding.
In the last two years, I've almost completely given up on reading fiction.
As I get more interested in abstract representations in images, I've almost completely given up on them in books.
Film is truth 24 times a second, says the old cliche.
But that's exactly false. Every photo is a lie. You're taking a tiny slice of an experience, then inviting the viewer to blow it back up to reality size.
There could be a fucking stegosaurus just outside the frame of this photo, and the viewer would never know.
Literature is a lie too, but at least it's more obvious.
The stegosaurus is still there, but you can't take it home with you.
I disagree, though, somewhat: I think art (fiction, photography, whatever) can be a distillation process. The artist can distill out the truth, as you suggest; but he could also distill to the truth. It depends on the filter. Sorry about the mixed metaphors. Someone who says it better:
“When you listen to somebody’s story and then try to reproduce it in writing, the tone’s the main thing. Get the tone right and you have a true story on your hands. Maybe some of the facts aren’t quite correct, but that doesn’t matter – it actually might elevate the truth factor of the story. Turn this around, and you could say there’re stories that are factually accurate yet aren’t true at all.”
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I enjoyed your post, as usual.
I disagree, though, somewhat: I think art (fiction, photography, whatever) can be a distillation process. The artist can distill out the truth, as you suggest; but he could also distill to the truth. It depends on the filter. Sorry about the mixed metaphors. Someone who says it better:
“When you listen to somebody’s story and then try to reproduce it in writing, the tone’s the main thing. Get the tone right and you have a true story on your hands. Maybe some of the facts aren’t quite correct, but that doesn’t matter – it actually might elevate the truth factor of the story. Turn this around, and you could say there’re stories that are factually accurate yet aren’t true at all.”
-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman