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Two Views

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Trying to find words that reveal without condemning. Over the past several years, I have sought a shorthand for describing the commonplace avid photographer. Those who believe photography is an art, but don’t follow art. I’ve not wanted to hit them, even though their chosen position is to disparage much of what I view as constructive in a world.

Most of the <unnamed> use film and have for decades.

Exemplars

Who you know about; who you use as guide of your first efforts — these are the people of your first principles; your foundation. This foundation limits the size as well as the dimensions of growth. How big. How high.

I have known of Jungiin Lee for years, but have only recently heard of Clyde Butcher. These two serve as exemplars of two different paths. I heard of Butcher in online forums as a claimant of the mantle of Ansel Adams, and as working the manner of Hudson River School. Oddly, he misses the key to understanding the color notions, by not using color. Oh well, his real background is in selling clocks and walks.

Make no mistake, he is a success, and has been for decades. And so is Lee. These success are characteristically different. Butcher’s followers are buying art that provides functional memory of a place. Lee provides conversation with a history of art which includes photography. Her followers must understand relationships of place and object.

Their distinctions aren’t desert and swamp; they are ways of working with a place. In both people, we see continued working of their subject.

The Gallery world has accepted Jungiin Lee. Clyde Butcher has made his own gallery. In fact, he made his own destination bed and breakfast, which provides tours.

To my world, Clyde Butcher shouldn’t even be mentioned as contributor to the world of art. He is a journeyman that illustrates one journey of the weekend artist. He makes the simple seem hard, which makes it seem like art to those stuck on their first grade drawing assignment

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reverse engineering engineering

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notions:

  • getting to a limited result. opening the black box without releasing the bees
  • software of scanning. rather than the scanner
  • what does a dashboard reveal. between cars. how bout between car and motorcycle, or tractor, or passenger jet.
  • difference in controlling the bare instrument, and the complex one, that is the range of useage of the machine.
  • also true of the camera, analoq vs digital. more power of process in the digital camera than the analoq box camera.

Learning Photography

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Making a task hard so it turns into art. OR, the art of fooling yourself

First, let us begin with learning to draw. We begin with the circle. Don’t worry that you can’t draw a circle, no one can; however, you can make a dot. that is where we start.

Make a dot on the paper. See. Easy, wasn’t it. Tomorrow you will make another dot next to the first, just a little to one side and down. Each day continue, making one dot each day. By this time next year you will have made your first circle.

Repeat this for ten years, until you have ten circles. It took a long time. Was hard to do. Required great patience as well as dedication. You may now think of yourself as an artist.

This is absurd, but, it is what most of the weekenders think photography as art is. Long slow tedius. making the requirements of a picture fall second to the art of picturing.

You should also wrap this in phrases based upon: light, vision, craft and such. Of course, nothing that can be seen isn’t based upon those same words.