Tuesday
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an appropriation or an homage? Pt. 4
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 11:24PM 
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Maybe there needs to be a concept for this? I'm not there yet, but the photos are coming along nonetheless. What is known is that it's important to get out there and do something, whether there is a fully formed concept or not. For now, I'll leave it at that.
BTW, this is from the same location shown in a earlier entry, which might give it a bit more context.
Reader Comments (6)
Just curious anyone stop to comment?
Heh Don. Thanks for stopping by. No one has commented on this entry. BTW, you can see all the comments that I can see.
Uh, KW, I believe Don is asking if anyone stopped to make a comment IN PERSON while you were photographing. And it is of course OK to do stuff without knowing why or conceptualizing beforehand. I'm still a believer in creative exploration -- in contrast to expression, perhaps. Using creativity as a way of figuring out where you are going as opposed to the other way around. The best things happen with the least amount of preconception sometimes. Well, most often for me. Even in an "illustration" rather than something defined as fine art, being open to the unexpected makes for better results.
JW - Ahhh... thanks for the clarification... No one stopped while I was photoing. It being a roundabout, there's not really anywhere to stop other than in the middle of the road.
Since I've never really known where I was going, I thought it might be somewhat interesting to conceive of it in advance for once. But that doesn't seem to have happened, other than to have the idea of taking photographs of photography books in significant locations. I think about what photograph might work in which location, but that's about as far as I've gotten.
A photo of a camera photographing a book on an artist's easel in an intersection is a concept I can get behind. The view camera being across the street from the easel, and the placement of the car in the frame really make this one work for me.
Thanks Joe. Perhaps these postings have been something of a lie, being about the process rather than what I'm actually doing. It may be time to post the images that have been created w/ the 4x5, the reason these p&s pics exist. Anywho, from this particular set up, the best exposure for me is nowhere as complex as the posted image. But it shows the photograph in the book and the setting far more clearly than any of the others.