Artist's Statement
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine
Any photograph I take I want one to dissect their own imagination, searching within themselves the story the picture tells, to draw out ones imagination. To taste the substance of what the photograph is, what they hear and feel from the image. To not just look at the picture, but to actually see it, and understand it under their own terms. I want someone to look at my art and wonder, what’s just up those stairs, just beyond the ajar door, or what magic is at hand.
A picture is more than just a piece of time captured within a light-sensitive emulsion, it is an experience one has whose story is told through an enchanting image. I photograph the world in the ways I see it. Every curious angle, vibrant color, and abnormal subject makes me think, and want to spark someone else’s thought process. The photographs in this work were not chosen by me, but by the reactions each image received when looked at. If a photo was merely glanced at or given a casual compliment, then I didn’t feel it was strong enough a work, but if one was to stop somebody, and be studied in curiosity, or question, then the picture was right to be chosen.
My mind is constantly taking in situations frame by frame, whether its zooming in on a minute detail, or soaking in the grander view. I always bring things down to a picturesque perspective. I’m not expressing myself, in terms, the world is expressing itself through me.
Having such an image before our eyes, often we fail to recognize the message it is trying to display from a certain point of view. Through Clark’s statement, it is evident that a photograph holds a graphic message, which mirrors the representation of our way of thinking with the world sights, which therefore engages other
Susan Sontag once wrote, “To collect photographs is to collect the world.” In her article entitled “On Photography,” she overviews the nature of photography and its relation to people using it. Sontag discusses photography’s ability to realistically capture the past rather than an interpretation of it, acting as mementos that become immortal. Continuing on to argue the authenticity of photography and how its view points have shifted from art into a social rite.With the use of rhetorical devices, Sontag scrutinizes the characteristics of photography and its effects on surrounding affairs; throughout this article Sontag reiterates the social rites, immortality and authenticity of photographs, and the act of photography becoming voyeuristic. With the use of the rhetorical devices pathos, appeal of emotion, ethos, appeal to ethics and credibility, and logos, appeal to logic, Sontag successfully persuades the audience to connect and agree with her views.
In the word of Gordon Parks, “I feel it is the heart, not the eyes that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye see is its own what the heart can perceive is a very different matter” (qtd. in “Picture quotes”). Most viewer only views the images throw their eyes and they thought they could get the meaning of it. However, some photographs cannot be understood just by visual. For instance, Ice cream parlor, Blind River, Ontario captured in 1955by Parks. This photograph required the heart to be understood the narrative, messages, surprise and significant of the photograph. Parks’s photo should be
Mckenny is from Wilkes-Barre, pennsylvania. After dropping out of college he went and bought a professional grade camera. He self taught himself through youtube videos and experimentation. He goes out into the forest and takes all kinds of pictures ranging from burning people, drowning people, burying people and ghosts. He uses models for some of these pictures but the ghosts he can do using only himself and a white sheet. “I like taking away identity when photographing and to leave people thinking. I only make the photos I do to express myself and what other people see or think is up to them.” he explains. “I don’t like to give people an identity; I like to focus on the story, not the person.” (McKenney) Analysing other peoples art is important as an artist because it makes them form a stronger creative process and inspires them to make more art.
Gregory Crewdson once said “I love the experience of cinema- being enveloped in a complete world of another’s imagination. I love the quality of film- how it can capture so richly the color and light of a scene. And I love photography - for what it leaves unsaid for it is from this that we can start to spin our own imagination.” Crewdson accomplishes the both the most intriguing and frustrating aspect of art; he poses a question yet refuses to reveal the answer. It is the unanswerable question that leads the viewer to study the work and spend hours contemplating its meaning.
Sontag, Susan. "Essay | Photography Enhances Our Understanding of the World." BookRags. BookRags. Web. 15 Apr. 2014.
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