I know a lot of my friends are photographers, or aspire to be photographers or just sorta like photography.
I am not a photographer myself, so I guess I'm a little fuzzy on the deets. I'm guessing the general idea of photography is to capture the beauty, ambiance, atmosphere, emotion or...whatever... of that moment.
I remember while I was in New Zealand, I saw a lot of beautiful scenery, and I took a lot of pictures, I guess. But not nearly as much as anyone else on the tour! The thing is, sometime, something is so beautiful and breathtaking that I just want to leave it. I know that my camera and my 'skillz' are not that great as to capture that moment on my camera. I know that no matter how beautiful that picture is, its not going to be exactly as wonderful as it is in reality. It's as though, by taking a picture of that scenery, I am sort of destroying it.
I think similarly, that's sort of why I don't like people to look at my favourite pieces of art. They're my babies...okay I don't create that much work that I am so proud of, that I will consider it as my baby. I gnereally hate a lot of my work after I complete it....OKAY THATS NOT THE POINT.
OK, so the thing is, I don't really like showing people my work, because I feel as though after they've seen it, whatever they perceive my work as, will inevitably become an extension to the work. I don't like that. If I created something, I want to leave it at that. Even if I am proud of it, I'm not going to go around flaunting it for people to see. So that's just a personal thing I guess.
Does anyone else get the same thing with the photography thing?
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You're really quite fascinating, aren't you? The photography question is a big one. I'll muse and see whether I can come up with a reasonably succinct comment.
OK, lots of thoughts, but just one for the sake of brevity.
We get a lot more from landscape than just the physical form. There’s the scale, the three dimensions, all the environmental factors, and the fact that it’s bigger than us and we’re standing inside it. How can you hope to reduce it to a small, two-dimensional image and do it justice? I was conscious of that during my years as a landscape photographer. I think it was very mature and perceptive of you to just leave it.
i still want to see your art. cant i keep the comments to myself?
I remember you and I discussing this before and I totally agree with you (with the art making) and about the photography, it doesn't mean having to capture everything, just a snapshot, like a framework of that particular place or memory. I've been reading Freud. I feel corrupted.
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