urban renewal # 2
Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 10:52AM 
Series Premiere • click on photo to embiggen itSometimes the incredibly obvious is difficult to see.
Yesterday, on civilized ku # 13, Ana wrote; "I've always known in an abstract sense that photographers have power -- I've admired a lot of photographs that are either in-studio or set up or manipulated or obviously created in some way. But "knowing" that about other people's work turns out to be different from realizing that I, too, can exercise that power, which I'd simply never had a sense of before."
As a relatively recent newcomer to the photography game, Ana has a bit of an excuse for not realizing that she 'too can realize that power'. I, on the other hand, with 30 years of experience making pictures for commercial clients, not to mention viewing the work of artists-who-use-photography (one favorite, Joel-Peter Witkin, as an example) for about the same period of time, have no excuse for not realizing I 'have the power" to do the same with my own non-commercial picturing.
DUH.
I guess that's one of the reasons I like going NYC, one way or another, it always seems to shake up how I see things.
Reader Comments (4)
is that an adirondack mountain peeking out at the far end of that road?!?!?
ha! and I just found another funny one! this is like "where's waldo"!!!
Ooh, world blending! You do it seamlessly Mark. I gotta make sure to catch that Ice Jam show..
Hope I can see that Ice Jam show! Is Aaron starring?