Photo of the day. "Light falls..." I have been on a strange sort of journey lately when it comes to photography. And I have noticed a shift in my vision or rather a slight deepening of meaning that I am seeking when it comes to the imagery I have been consuming and capturing. I have been watching a tremendous amount of documentaries about photography and photographers trying to understand where my own peculiar sort of artistic unrest is originating from. I suspect the angst has to do with a visual tiredness and unease at the overwhelming amount of imagery that seems to be in circulation at any given moment online. I am pondering writing a series of essays on the rise of mass consumption and sharing and how it correlates to various trends in offline photography but the ideas are all still percolating. A series that really, really touched me though is called Contacts. I devoured all of Contacts: Volume 2 - The Revival of Contemporary Photography and Contacts: Volume 3: Conceptual Photography over the course of two nights. It’s a collection of tiny vignettes that explore different photographer’s contact sheets and/or body of work while they explain or talk about their work. I think I have watched the vignette of Sarah Moon’s work set to her stream-of-consciousness description of her own inward photographic journey over a dozen times at this point (it even ended up on my “Scenes that have stuck to my ribs and heart” playlist on Youtube: https:// youtube/playlist? list=PL37ukyrDPS55l- PIZks15p6mc9HEa47Dc : the ultimate testament to it becoming a part of my consciousness permanently ;) ). When I first watched it and listened, I could barely stop the tears from flowing because it was absolutely perfect (and even that would be an understatement): https://youtube/watch? v=R2HTA0CfW7U —- I had an entirely different set of thoughts I wanted to include with my image of the Williamsburg Bridge (taken with the trusty Sony A99) but I seem to have veered in a different direction perhaps because all of this has been on my mind for weeks. And that’s fine, now that I think of it, because in some ways, there couldn’t be a more fitting recent image to accompany this post. “Time goes by. Light falls. I lose confidence. I don’t want to be a photographer anymore… Then, all of a sudden, but not always, something changes, I can’t say why, maybe I’m just in the right place at the right time, or maybe I believe in it. However, for a split second, I see a sparkle of beauty passing by, everything goes so quickly now within that stillness, and I’m carried away, and at last I like what I see, and I can’t stop finding it, then losing it, and all day long I keep on, because it once existed.” - Sarah Moon --- You can view this post along with all relevant links over at my photography blog here: nythroughthelens/ post/45957217803/williamsburg- bridge-pedestrian-walkway-new- york
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:35:13 +0000
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