Here are random notes and scribbles in no particular order.

 

Currently most photographs tend to isolate something out of a larger whole. They are not invitations to share in the whole but something culled from the herd for examination and introspection, rather bleak activities.

 

Photographs happen two ways- they are made or they are found/discovered/uncovered/revealed.

 

Photographs are much stronger when they show instead of tell.

+ are captured in the moment instead of staged or posed.

 

DON'T PHOTOGRAPH TREES

 

SEEING EVERYTHING

A photograph should give you the feeling that you are seeing everything

– that nothing is being cropped out

– self contained

–complete

 

A photograph splits time.

 

Because the sentimentality a photograph can elicit, photography always borders on kitsch.

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Pre-existing Forms - Cliche

Sentiment & Nostalgia - Kitsch

 

A photograph should have an entrance and an exit.

 

I have never liked Photographic Pictorialism even in its current form.

 

What is the reason to look at a photograph more than once?

to remember? to remember what?

 

Don't seek beauty – beauty will appear when it wants to.

 

Peeling paint is equivalent to what exactly?

 

EVERYTHING LOOKS THE WAY IT LOOKS

 

Failure Rate

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Redundancy

 

A Day of Constricted Possibilities

 

Found on the internet attributed to Matisse,

"Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out. ”

 

The world seems to organize itself in front of my camera.

 

THERE – Photography as editing - pointing. To focus is to exclude.

 

The Photographic Series

photography's cumulative effect - - -

Supporting evidence? (investigations produce evidence)

Finding examples?

Proof - of what?

(that the first one wasn't a lucky shot)

Scientific, the repeatability of a hypothesis?

The attraction and madness of collections

The last one justifies the first one

 

A good photograph always elicits a sense of place.