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23.10.08
sometimes i sits and thinks
and sometimes i just sits
OH ISN'T THAT FUNNY I REMEMBER IT FROM 8th GRADE IT WAS IN MY math CLASSROOM AND THERE WAS A PIC OF A CHIMP ON IT HEE HEE
let's have a little chat. a little chat about photography. i think that's what i'm going to write my master's thesis on. isn't that exciting i think so. so here's the scoop: lots of people have the general misconception that photos are for recording what is real, what is here/now/then. *buzzer sound* nope.
so sure (Su Shi? - that's a Chinese painting joke btw wow) using silver bichromate and the like in the early days of photography was p. neat to record the sweet stuff you saw and to show it to other people. hey let's go out into the woods and take pix of the natives of the american continent and the sweet rocks in yosemite too and then people will be like dayum check out those rocks and stuff. fame/money/science. but then let's say you go ahead a few decades and start looking at people like edward steichen and the pictorialists. they, imho, kind of took the easy way out in getting people to start thinking of photography as art and not just some scientific process. they were all like: look, we are posing people like they are in paintings, the scenes are all fabricated, we have the light just so, i greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in. then they'd put them up in frames that kind of resembled altar pieces. f. day was like: i'm going to be theatrical and string myself up like jesus on the cross to recreate a religious scene. people weren't too thrilled. (although ppl did like those other pictorialists/ me 2)
but THEN we have alfred stieglitz (who looks a lot like david cross with hair btw) and he's like cool, i went to europe, i'm setting up all my photos to be all scenic and such. but then he decided: no. i'm going to just wait out in the snow and hope that the exact moment i'm looking for (previsualizing, he called it) comes along and then WHAM! i'll take the shot and it'll be so cool and artsy. and he was right. straight photography. the birth of the snapshot as 'art'.
so these days everyone and their moody aunt is taking pix all the time and very few people who don't smoke cloves and wear 4 scarves and very tight jeans are thinking about the way to set up a shot and make a good photo. sign of the times i guess. but it's way easier to take photos now, so sometimes people are like: i could have done that (constant curse of the art museum goer: listening to these fools). that's why i want to look at artists who are doing photos that you COULDN'T have done. like gregory crewdson. that guy sets up lights and models and towns and rain machines and all kinds of stuff to get one, big, great shot. jeff wall does stuff like that too. photographic posed tableaus that play with people's idea of the photo as a recording of real life. i don't really know where i was going with this, but sometimes it helps to just write things down on the internet.
OK THAT IS ALL FOR NOW THX
"Certainly common sense distinguishes an image from reality. But why does common sense vanish in front of a photograph and charge it with such a mythical power over life and death?"
-THIERRY de DUVE
Jeff Wall's "Flooded Grave"
Gregory Crewdson's "Untitled" from the 'Twilight' Series
OH ISN'T THAT FUNNY I REMEMBER IT FROM 8th GRADE IT WAS IN MY math CLASSROOM AND THERE WAS A PIC OF A CHIMP ON IT HEE HEE
let's have a little chat. a little chat about photography. i think that's what i'm going to write my master's thesis on. isn't that exciting i think so. so here's the scoop: lots of people have the general misconception that photos are for recording what is real, what is here/now/then. *buzzer sound* nope.
so sure (Su Shi? - that's a Chinese painting joke btw wow) using silver bichromate and the like in the early days of photography was p. neat to record the sweet stuff you saw and to show it to other people. hey let's go out into the woods and take pix of the natives of the american continent and the sweet rocks in yosemite too and then people will be like dayum check out those rocks and stuff. fame/money/science. but then let's say you go ahead a few decades and start looking at people like edward steichen and the pictorialists. they, imho, kind of took the easy way out in getting people to start thinking of photography as art and not just some scientific process. they were all like: look, we are posing people like they are in paintings, the scenes are all fabricated, we have the light just so, i greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in. then they'd put them up in frames that kind of resembled altar pieces. f. day was like: i'm going to be theatrical and string myself up like jesus on the cross to recreate a religious scene. people weren't too thrilled. (although ppl did like those other pictorialists/ me 2)
but THEN we have alfred stieglitz (who looks a lot like david cross with hair btw) and he's like cool, i went to europe, i'm setting up all my photos to be all scenic and such. but then he decided: no. i'm going to just wait out in the snow and hope that the exact moment i'm looking for (previsualizing, he called it) comes along and then WHAM! i'll take the shot and it'll be so cool and artsy. and he was right. straight photography. the birth of the snapshot as 'art'.
so these days everyone and their moody aunt is taking pix all the time and very few people who don't smoke cloves and wear 4 scarves and very tight jeans are thinking about the way to set up a shot and make a good photo. sign of the times i guess. but it's way easier to take photos now, so sometimes people are like: i could have done that (constant curse of the art museum goer: listening to these fools). that's why i want to look at artists who are doing photos that you COULDN'T have done. like gregory crewdson. that guy sets up lights and models and towns and rain machines and all kinds of stuff to get one, big, great shot. jeff wall does stuff like that too. photographic posed tableaus that play with people's idea of the photo as a recording of real life. i don't really know where i was going with this, but sometimes it helps to just write things down on the internet.
OK THAT IS ALL FOR NOW THX
"Certainly common sense distinguishes an image from reality. But why does common sense vanish in front of a photograph and charge it with such a mythical power over life and death?"
-THIERRY de DUVE
Jeff Wall's "Flooded Grave"
Gregory Crewdson's "Untitled" from the 'Twilight' Series
15.10.08
5.10.08
deskMOD™
finally got a desk that wasn't missing a side isn't that cool
$10bux:: later here we are
added some of the broken desk to the new/used desk
basically i added a spoiler to it
because when i'm on the internet i like to go fast
zooom
$10bux:: later here we are
added some of the broken desk to the new/used desk
basically i added a spoiler to it
because when i'm on the internet i like to go fast
zooom
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