Category: Theory: figurative

Happy 122424

Posted on Posted in art biz, overnight notes, Theory: figurative, Theory: narrative

children and childhood in the uncomfort zone beyond the comfort pick up your children and throw them at the world  — but do it with a camera 

Women re-revising their childhood; their adolescence; their children as memory props, children as merch

it’s all become just another book on the shelf 

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Stages
Music. Lyrics. Dance. Occasion
providers of the occasion are those receiving greatest reward.
We are not randomly inlueninfluenced. There is a shuffle of the influence/exposure.
Making pictures are based, prompted by triggers & response repetition
this things produce that slide show in your psyche, visual paths,

Much 21st century photography is an extended caption.
Limited paths
cards in a deck there is a limited number but an infinite shuffle 

A limited number but an unlimited shuffle 

The triggering more fix the Henry Home Smith and the glass sculpture trigger the same interactions shapes on the Earth are of the Earth shapes within a culture are of the culture 

/yellow pad overnight December 24 24

Photographs or just office supplies in the visual factory 
Paper clips in the art factory 
aura: divinity

stature of being beyond

calling something cinematic provides the heightened reverence of the commercial cathedral of movies 
calling a movie something that is entertainment for children and board workers calling at cinema turns it into the chapel of culture of high culture the no brow eyebrow to the pinky 
wearing a wife beater's becomes a member of the beefeaters 
b theaters?
covid & artworlds

by destroying the gallery and growing the studio

as the Gallery closed the studio opened 
as the art fair closed the bookstore opened 
now the collector returns and the studio becomes a banana stand

American West

Posted on Posted in lost horizon, on photographers, overnight notes, The Biz, the fora, Theory: figurative

when trivia becomes the reason for the gathering. Weekenders, devoted members of the Snobby Hobby discuss work turning to the meaningless, quickly.

It may not mean anything, yet it fills the time of those without much effort.

Let’s get to the work… they can’t. What they can say about their work is how it was done. Even after decades, the conversation is at how-to.

speaking from rumor. once heard becomes the word.

The why-for of considering their campfire stories. Do they propose a mode of looking without understanding who, what it excludes. What, the how and the who they condone (or condemn) matters, perhaps, even more as the world of profession recedes into the past. There are amateurs and then again others. The nature of a field mixed without common ground is my interest.

Richard Avedon

Baldwin and Avedon. Nothing Personal [ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/13/richard-avedon-and-james-baldwins-joint-examination-of-american-identity ] was my preferred book. Baldwin’s writing was my prompt. Many years later, I see Avedon as a masterful photographer. A maker of cliches rather than a perpetuator of them. His story is that of many commercial photographers, although he was able to move from the commerce to collection with help from the Amon Carter.

 Philip Gefter’s book, “What Becomes a Legend Most,” argues for Avedon’s place as one of the 20th century’s most consequential photographers.

Laura Wilson documented the project’s gestation and birth in her book “Avedon at Work: In the American West.” Published in 2003. She learned the most necessary “craft” of photography — dealing with the world. The following video at the Amon Carter hits several key points in her method.

Modernage

Founded by Ralph Baum in the 1950′s, New York’s Modernage Photographics pioneered many of the most advanced darkroom techniques in the last half of the 20th Century. A master photographer and technician, Baum was to champion the notion that the art of the photographic print was equally important to the creation of the photographic negative that served as its inspiration. Name Drop: Josef Cernovics; Michael J. Masucci 

1985 Amon Carter shows Avedon In the American West

Deborah Bright (spe exposure) publishes Mother Nature and Marlboro Men… about landscape photography and western spaces

Click to access Bright-Marlboro_LAndscape.pdf