Thursday, March 24, 2011

Blog Prompts 16 -18

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals


Agreed completely. As a creative person it's not what it's phisically present what matters to me, but what is outside of me, what is unreachable and what I can push forward in order to grasp. That is what it's always important. However, this also poses to be a problem when it's almost unreachable. The best way to deal with this is to understand how far can I push it and how far can I go in order to get that idea or if I can switch it to something far more attainable.

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” Arnold Newman


There are two photographies: one is the one that we as artist do and print or expose, the other is the one that is in the mind of the audience. When we see them, we understand not only the world of the author and what he wants to portray but ourselves as well as we look at it and how it relates to us in different ways, amazing or making us feel dread. Whatever the case, this is a work of communication between audience and author.

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott


This is even philosophical as to ask, what is really the present and what is really the past? Thinking about it, there's really no time, but only interpretation. The minute you press the shutter it's gonna be past, and the minute after the shutter is completly closed is gonna be present, but once the photo is fully developed, again is back in the past. Can it really preserve a memory? Yes it does.

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