Category: morning wood

A Book to Have Written

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We have books, on shelves and within.

Everyone who thinks does some writing, some part of writing. Everyone who has taught has written or talked enough to have written. Maybe speech to text could have done the job better.

I don’t teach; didn’t teach for long enough to become a teacher. I do talk to myself or dogs when they are around.

Because I read and pick what to read by following authors, there are a continual stream of books — small, big — deep, less so. An author/curator of currency mentioned a book, so I picked up a copy. And considering the time difference, the different decades of perspective and history, this book seems familiar. An easy going first year book of ideas, with enough annotation to keep the student moving.

It makes me feel as though I could have, or should have written it.

i wrote about process and specific photographs. That was an age that saw great separation between theory and application. I’m glad that gap has been crossed.

Photography; the Key Concepts. David Bate

His key concepts include reference material as well as interpretations. It is an example of a fine text supplement to studio principle course.

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Bare’s book has a beginning middle and end — The other text depicted is a compilation “The Education of a Photographer” Charles Traub.. Classic writings — and available as an eBook.

A small sample of the Bate’s he refactors Fired’s “Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before into:

GenreArtist
“History” PaintingJeff Wall, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Thoms Ruff
LandscapeAndreas Gursky, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Thomas Ruff, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Thomas Demand
Luc Delahaye, Stephen Shore, Candida Hofer, Jean-Marc Bustamante
PortraitureThomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorsa, Cindy Sherman, Rineke Dijkstra,
Luc Delahaye, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Still LifeThomas Demand, Wolfgang Tillmns, Jeff Wall
Academy Painters Photographers

helpful hindrance

Posted on Posted in da net, morning wood, the fora 
answering a question they don’t have experience in
cause they need to be heard


parked car ... don’t need more information, they need more courage-- the power to try again. 

they always tell you what to wear to the dance .. they think you like the same music

always telling you what to wear, no matter how you dance

assume they know how to dance and aren’t merely jumping around showing off — remembering someone else’s memory

mark of an amateur : they cant tell good advice from bad, they are too filled with fear. biggest fear is of making a mistake. art is about moving without enough knowledge  -- that's what you are making


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making a list 
key concept(s)
-- assembly process
pigment in colloid
wash-off processing
exposure hardens colloid to retain pigment
-- more exposure = more density, depth of layer

how to make your list
work from both ends
-- have a goal
-- know where you're starting
have distinct pages for each step so drill down isn't blocking your guide list.
don't get yourself lost with stacks of pages, references.
take each into notebook. stickies help