“When the photographer is freed from photography, photography is also freed from ‘realism.’”
Enough Twitter regurgitation!
Consider the question “is this photography?” or the declaration “that’s not photography.” The thought behind these statements is binary, maybe even dogmatic. The quote at the top of this post is pointing towards a more open way of looking (so to speak) at photography.
I plan to write more about this quote, but I want to put it in your head first.
Full article by Sara L. Marion at AMERICANSUBURBX; found by lpvgallery
IMHO, Photography’s vision can’t never remain the same for the whole gazillion of year. After the post-war, there’s lots of changes in-terms of style and also how the way we usually see an composition image especially in Western Photography Culture before in Eastern Countries like Japan & China, Both of this country already have recognition (Heavy Light book and last year’s Fotofest at Houston) in most of Western Country or even South East Asian Photographer just recently got recognize by their Government and Galleries (VWFA CUT).
I can see in 2009, the photography trend does change allot. The word “contemporary” appear in most of the magazine and website eventually.
I still remember 2 years ago, one of the speaker’s photography gallery give a talk about how instant change nowadays in photography and the speaker doesn’t like the words “contemporary” appear in every reflection statement she receive by the photographers. 2 years later, I’ve seen the word “contemporary” photography appear everywhere in Melbourne’s Gallery.
Oh crap! I forget what’s the speaker name..
Yeah.. That’s what I think yet…. so far.. (Don’t you just hate after the millenium everything change so fast?) haha