On 7/21/2011 12:45, Christine Aguila wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 7/20/2011 11:57, Christine Aguila wrote:
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ann wrote:
I also considered /thought that "street photography" was basically
photo-journalism but you do it for yourself, rather than on an
assignment... where the distance fades away... you wouldn't be
photographing something with which you had absolutely no gut
connection, would you?
Christine replies
Well, you can use your creative skills (whatever they are) to do a study
on something you have great affinity for, but you can also use them to
discover something you don't know anything about.
Point taken. certainly exploring a strange place with a camera is
something I've done often and is truly my favorite thing to do...
But there is lots more good no visual art out there , especially in the
written word, where the artist knows what he is writing about well
rather than on something he has to book up on to write about.
I'm putting this in the context of any artist wanting to publish,
wanting to share the experiences with others.
Forgive this odd example but it does make my point - On several
different occasions and times the owners of Scrabble made special
editions of the physical set over the years. two noteworthy ones
were designed by artists who had never played the game and no
serious player was ever consulted in the construction / re design.
Had they done so, they could have made lots more money on the sets.
The Franklin Mint set had gold metal tiles - The board was elaborate
but still useable. However the tiles had the letters etched into
the gold... this presented two problems, you couldn't see the
letters from most angles but you could braille them... to
photograph the set for advertising they had to blacken the letters.
The current deluxe set did something even more stupid .. they
changed the colors of the premium squares - to make them prettier. oy.
The *write what you
know* mantra is often early advice young fiction writers and poets
get--a familiar starting point where *what they know* is allowed to
mingle greatly with their imaginations to achieve and inform some
creative end. But I wouldn't agree that the artist is forever stuck in
that place--though it is true many, many artists never leave that place;
it becomes their creative obsession.
Cheers, Christine
Well in the cases of some great artists , a magnificent obsession.
You can evolve creatively without taking leaps and bounds away from
what your gut responds to, don't you think?
cheers back,
ann
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