civilized ku # 2068 ~ remnants
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:08PM ;)
Remnants - tea, cheerios and milk, and sherbet with toenails ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenI have surrendered to the fact that I am constitutionally unable to walk into my kitchen without seeing a picture making opportunity. To a certain extent, I feel as though I am beginning to channel my inner Sudek.
Josef Sudek, aka: the Poet of Prague, is one of my all-time favorite picture makers. Most of his picture making life was spent roaming the streets, parks, gardens of his beloved Prague. One writer referred to this as:
... his exploration led him through the streets and sites of Prague, working, it would seem, from the outside in.
However, later in Sudek's life, as age and limited mobility set in, the same writer opined:
... he began orchestrating from the inside out, concentrating on private subjects - the window of his studio, the garden outside, simple still lifes within.
To be certain, I am not at all hindered by neither age nor limited mobility. I still have a very active picture making life of working from "the outside in". However, in a picture making manner not evident earlier in my life, I also seem to be increasing attracted to working from the "inside out"*.
In light of this development, I find it necessary to start a new picturing category titled simply home. While there are many pictures here on The Landscapist which could be retroactively labeled with that tag, I will not be expending the time and effort to do so. I would much rather spend that time and effort editing / organizing those pictures into a suitable folder in my archives.
However, from this day forward, I will be including that tag with my pictures when appropriate.
FYI, you can see some of Sudek's "inside out" pictures here. Although, be forewarned, even though I think them to be rather obvious (easy to spot), they are not categorized as such within this random overview of his work.
*Armchair psychologists should feel free to chime in on why this is so. In fact, I encourage it because it could be a very interesting topic, re: why people picture what it is they picture.
Reader Comments (1)
Others besides Sudek have done similar projects. One I can recommend is Andre Kertesz's From My Window which has some wonderful "inside out" images.