sometimes I take images of things because I want to remember how the subject looked and how it was presented to me in real life. I want the visual note so I can incorporate it into the things that I write about. The images become reminders for me and at the same time they seem to me to be quixotic and serial segments of life in the real world. A concept in seeing the flow of modern life as it exists now. In the moment. In this instance. It will all change next week. Next year. Tomorrow.
This will be a memory that provides a context when I think back about this particular period of time.
It may not be relevant to anyone else. But should that matter?
2 comments:
I actually start almost everything I do photographically with some note taking shots. I'm slow, I have to think things through, so I take some snaps of whatever it. I look at them from time to time, until some sort of an idea occurs to me.
This is why I could never be a professional. Crane trucks, you say? Hmm, yeah. Let me come out, take a few snaps. Then I'll get back to you.. some day. If I get a concept.
I see visual note taking as a personal practice. I sometimes make visual notes for myself as in a writer's notebook or artist's sketch book. I recently took some shots of the evening sky showing great colors in the clouds. I don't think they are great photos but they mean something to me and they may or may not be the seed of something in the future. If I snap the label of a bottle of wine at a restaurant with my cellphone that may be the equivalent of a grocery list. I don't think it matters although if Andy Warhol was working today he would take those "grocery lists", screen print them and exhibit them in a museum and sell them for gazillions. Oh oh, wait for the announcement of my new show :-).
Post a Comment
We Moderate Comments, Yours might not appear right after you hit return. Be patient; I'm usually pretty quick on getting comments up there. Try not to hit return again and again.... If you disagree with something I've written please do so civilly. Be nice or see your comments fly into the void. Anonymous posters are not given special privileges or dispensation. If technology alone requires you to be anonymous your comments will likely pass through moderation if you "sign" them. A new note: Don't tell me how to write or how to blog! I can't make you comment but I don't want to wade through spam!
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.