Category: meaning

Crumpled Fur

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Wes Anderson..

I went over to YT to get a different dose of how and about. Cinema since the start of “art house” theaters has been ground for thoughtful conversations — thoughtful since they produce thought. Work that gives some answers, as it leaves room for your challenge

The question WHY, not HOW. Questions begin the same; with the same question. First questions are the place most hobbyists remain.

easy to watch… An about the manners not the means of cinema.

In the timeframe of this post, an exhibit: Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen, opened in San Francisco, followed, a week later, by the Chelsea opening. Discussion of that show decants the skill of the online community; separating them into the category of their attention -what can they understand.

The various camps of training, study given, inherent ability have always kept () apart. I use (), in this instance, as a designator looking for a word, or perhaps, a phrase which provides a handle without limits for the words ” novice, amateur, dilettante, professional accomplished”

I am writing, I should say making endless notes, about the levels, stages, distinctions among those who do something without apparent reward; why do they gain skill, how and what skill do they gain, or lack. And why the obvious answer: they learn from others, is incomplete. Badly so.

Daisuke Yokota

Posted on Posted in art school, creativity, meaning, on photographers, overnight notes, The Other

Born: 1983- //  Yokota is part of a 
generation of young artists using photography in subversive 
new ways. His approach combines multiple rephotographing 
and printing, applying acid or flame to the end results, and 
making one-off prints and books from unexpected materials 
in staged public performances. Yokota is working out of, and 
pushing forward, a Japanese tradition of photobook-making 
that harks back to the visceral experimentation of the Provoke 
generation 

“I don’t make work to express my feelings, it’s more like burning them“

the Zine form: “A self published limited edition zine, the publication marks one of Yokota’s earliest printed works. Experimental and distinct to his book-making process, SITE is a series of images which displays the artist’s photographic approach in exploring both memory and time. With SITE, Yokota chose to experiment with both photoshop and digital forms of image distortion.” https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/site

“His practice consists in constantly revisiting his own archive of personal photographs by adding layers of accidents, in order to metaphorically signify the superimposition of states of consciousness and memories. Of- ten referring to the principles of echo and reverb, Yokota also establishes links between visual and musical fields. One could say that he captures ‘noise’ in the broadest sens of the word.

Daisuke Yokota is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed artist’s books, either handmade and self-published or realized with various publishers.” https://jeankentagauthier.com/en/artistes/presentation/5/daisuke-yokota

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DAISUKE YOKOTA — For Color Photographs, I worked with layered sheets of unused, large-format color film, experimenting with the development before scanning them. Generally, photography exists to record reality. The present development of technology ignores the material. Originally, needless to say, film negatives generated the image, and there was paper to stabilize it. In short, photography is a combination of images without the mass and the matter [film and paper]. For
Color Photographs, I focused on this material side. https://purple.fr/magazine/ss-2016-issue-25/daisuke-yokota/

note the foils included… how they overlay.

finally, flashback, only because it makes those of the hobby board wonder…

very clear explanation that leaves those expecting their method to be the only method, mis-interpreting the steps

the first group of amateur, the most common type, understand only what they know how to do.