tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post4572757795695023760..comments2024-03-01T00:28:37.354-08:00Comments on B: Wir Leben Immer...NochBlake Andrewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187987264904729243noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-23447192372833034552014-05-28T18:56:23.599-07:002014-05-28T18:56:23.599-07:00All true. I love these ideas. But consistency is a...All true. I love these ideas. But consistency is also nice. The untrained make exceptional images but what about prints? Narratives? More than a single great shot? If we're discussing fine art, I'm seeking something beyond luck. Or Martin Parr's cat exhibition, I suppose. An artist takes these ideas and continues them to a cohesive end. John Goldsmithhttps://johngoldsmithphotography.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-45047652798533424112014-05-27T11:28:31.635-07:002014-05-27T11:28:31.635-07:00After years and years of education / training/ sho...After years and years of education / training/ shooting / self-education / rules / non-rules, etc.....you will never be able to create "an anonymous snapshot" - it's impossible now. To work at creating an image which feels like "an anonymous snapshot" is incredibly arduous (knowingly breaking down your formal training, etc.); and it seems (unfortunately) as though an artist statement must accompany that imagery in order to explain why that snapshot(s) holds a certain something on it's own.<br /><br />I guess it depends on if snapshots are defined as imagery created by "non-professionals"?<br /><br />Rules, anyone?CJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-4183461848407088282014-05-25T16:35:18.238-07:002014-05-25T16:35:18.238-07:00"This is why I sometimes find great snapshots..."This is why I sometimes find great snapshots depressing. The idea that you can work your ass off, pace the streets, take thousands of images and still fall short of an old anonymous album photo is a bit of a downer"<br /><br />with 30 years experience in cinema/photography, and accumulated skill in ALL the principles of photography, my girlfriend frequently takes stellar, definitive snaps with her iPhone. on the fly. bam! all while i'm setting manual exposure on my 5d.<br /><br />she has like 50 million followers on her website. i think i had 6 visits to my sites last month. i think they were probably all me, checking in.<br /><br />love ur blog. it's honest and insightful. and i love your work.<br /><br />respect from l.a. (we CAN be respectful. really.)barry younghttp://barryyoungart.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-81119023703884227742014-05-24T07:31:22.817-07:002014-05-24T07:31:22.817-07:00Re: "Sometimes I don't know why I keep tr...Re: "Sometimes I don't know why I keep trying.":<br />I don't think that B. can actually stop taking photos. It is who you are. The act of it, the moment you know you got the moment, this is what it's all about (at least in my mental repesentation of you.). If no one ever saw even one of your photos, it would not stop you from taking them.<br />The flip side of it is that your mind wants to get that "instant photo insight porn" endorphin shot even when you are not shooting, which is why you keep on looking at other people's photographs. <br /><br />crnigjuroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-41920360638037574092014-05-23T21:19:41.243-07:002014-05-23T21:19:41.243-07:00Maybe we can call it Neo-Cubist?
"Photo-Surr...<i>Maybe we can call it Neo-Cubist?</i><br /><br />"Photo-Surrealist".ed g.http://rumorsofwarblers.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-51941171447629323912014-05-23T19:00:45.571-07:002014-05-23T19:00:45.571-07:00Re reading now I understand your point about the &...Re reading now I understand your point about the "anonymous side of the snapshots", but part of the happiness is in the Vivian Maier syndrome if you want to call so. I am pretty sure that I will dead taking portraits of people that see me if I am able to do it. There are some force, so impulse, that is see with hungry and enjoy some times the nice synchronize of heart, brain and soul, or something like this that made famous Bresson. I never did a show of my own work. And I have a lot of photos. My father did a documentation of Argentine history that few knows. I don't know how to put in the eyes of others the work. But this is a promotional problem, a marketing problem. I am afraid that put energy to solve that make our work less punk, freshness, or playful. The most happiness I had in my life is play doing photos. But I still like see those anonymous snapshots.Hernan Zentenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10827574143876112004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-19817760500941955222014-05-23T18:45:55.572-07:002014-05-23T18:45:55.572-07:00Do photos is toss messages forward to be received ...Do photos is toss messages forward to be received by ourselves or others. What are a photo? a message for the future. For who? Is beautiful? is interesting? is odd? Here you are mixing two themes. The life of a photo and the amazing quantity of photos we could edit thru the web. And I still can't find a relationship between this two points, except that there are a lot of people that don't care all this things and only produce, produce and produce. They are are putting more gasoline to the chaos. And they haven't idea about it. To not mention the social media.Hernan Zentenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10827574143876112004noreply@blogger.com