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Friday
Oct312014

diptych (selection) # 1 / civilized ku # 2823 ~ a+b+c

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driveway with leaves and foliage ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen
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breakwall ~ Essex, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
To my eye and sensibility, the best pictures (made within the medium of photography and its apparatus) - the ones which capture and hold my attention and interest - are those which are: a) a document / representation / depiction of the real in a truthful / factual manner; b) in which the depicted referent steps outside of the boundaries / confines of conventional referent matter; and c) does so in such a manner as to create, independent of the depicted referent and the "rules" of convention photographic composition*, a visually interesting structure of the elements - shapes, form, color, tonality - as viewed on the 2D surface of the photographic print ....

.... all of which is to write, beautiful prints - as objects in and of themselves - of referents which are often seen but to which very few are paying attention.

In any event, Ansel Adams, when asked which to save first from a burning house - the wife or the negatives?, responded ...

My wife - she could help me get the negs out!

I'm with Sir Ansel on that one.

* what Stephen Shore refers to as "art sauce".

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