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Just caught up with a TV program from back in October, 'The genius of photography', very inspiring and eye opening. It certainly made me look at a few things in different ways, up to the point of changing my perspective on a couple of issues. When i say 'changing' I dont actually mean ive totally changed my mind about these things, just that i can see things from an almost equal point of view.
Its pretty much always been my thing to say 'live for the moment' and 'the moment is all there really is' but looking at the images on this program and hearing about the thought process of the artists involved i couldnt help but see that pretty much everything i see that is 'new' photography has been done before. Yeah, there are new takes on old ideas but what images do we have now that are not cliched or different in concept that those that have gone before ?
The one main exception to this seems to be the recording of history, how people looked, the changes in society etc, but you dont see that until after the event. There are photo's that are taken today that will not see their true worth until some time in the future when people look back to see how we expressed ourselves through technology, fashion, opinions etc.
We can however look back and be blown away by the creativity (and i use the word to encompass war, art, fashion, concepts and everything else) of our forfathers. For me this also causes me to look towards the future and imagine more mind blowing evolution that we will witness and suddenly the 'now' seems very cliched and focuses down to the point of just being a viewer who, when we try to create something new, merely draws fom our past experiences and future imaginings. It is as if the 'now' is mediocre in comparison to what has and what will be.
Of course there is still the immediate creative spark when we become totally engrossed in what we are creating but again that creativity is not fully realised until we stop and look back at it. You cant have a concept of the moment without thoughts of the past and the future.
I'm not sure ive fully formulated this concept yet so you'll have to excuse me if i'm using this thread to get out some of the half ideas that are now floating around and i also appreciate that everyones art, the buzz they get from photography, is a very individual thing and apologies if this is more philosophy than photography but it made me think and that is seldom a bad thing.
Right, back to drinking beer and photoshopping some stray telephone wires out of my composition.
Its pretty much always been my thing to say 'live for the moment' and 'the moment is all there really is' but looking at the images on this program and hearing about the thought process of the artists involved i couldnt help but see that pretty much everything i see that is 'new' photography has been done before. Yeah, there are new takes on old ideas but what images do we have now that are not cliched or different in concept that those that have gone before ?
The one main exception to this seems to be the recording of history, how people looked, the changes in society etc, but you dont see that until after the event. There are photo's that are taken today that will not see their true worth until some time in the future when people look back to see how we expressed ourselves through technology, fashion, opinions etc.
We can however look back and be blown away by the creativity (and i use the word to encompass war, art, fashion, concepts and everything else) of our forfathers. For me this also causes me to look towards the future and imagine more mind blowing evolution that we will witness and suddenly the 'now' seems very cliched and focuses down to the point of just being a viewer who, when we try to create something new, merely draws fom our past experiences and future imaginings. It is as if the 'now' is mediocre in comparison to what has and what will be.
Of course there is still the immediate creative spark when we become totally engrossed in what we are creating but again that creativity is not fully realised until we stop and look back at it. You cant have a concept of the moment without thoughts of the past and the future.
I'm not sure ive fully formulated this concept yet so you'll have to excuse me if i'm using this thread to get out some of the half ideas that are now floating around and i also appreciate that everyones art, the buzz they get from photography, is a very individual thing and apologies if this is more philosophy than photography but it made me think and that is seldom a bad thing.
Right, back to drinking beer and photoshopping some stray telephone wires out of my composition.
I bought the DVD a while ago. I have tried to watch it twice but both times fell asleep. For me it was a bit anal but it would be a boring place if we were all the same.
so very true!
Me too, it really was an eye opener, proves that photography can be taken serious in the art world.