Finding the Story in Art
My next few posts are going to be about looking at art works and finding the stories they tell. Some of the stories are easy to find and some take a little digging, ...
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Why Bother?
"No one is interested in my art so why should I even bother doing it?" This thought has crossed my mind way more that once.
Geometric Photography
A while back I had the chance to photograph an old steel bridge that spanned the Erie canal. It had been declared unsafe for traffic and was blocked off for a couple years ...
Not to be Trusted
A few posts back we talked about the idea that some artists get stuck in a rut creating similar works over and over again throughout their career. And then there are the artists ...
Moses has horns. What’s up with that?
If you look closely at Moses in this image of a circa 1621 painting by Giovanni Lanfranco you can see that the painter has stuck a couple of horns on his head. What's ...
What’s wrong with this picture?
Have you ever tried swinging a big scythe like this one? It ain't easy believe me.
I grew up on a small farm that had a barn built by ...
The Death of Photography
I figure photography died somewhere around 1995. Gone. Kaput.
But wait you say, what about all these zillions of images I see floating around the web?
Well, if we define photography in ...
The Unity of the Photographer and the Photographed
What's the relationship between an artist and the subject that they're expressing? More specifically for our purposes between a photographer and the thing photographed.
In my post Photographs: Gone in a Hundredth of a ...
Copyrights Are Confusing
I began to write a post discussing the new Tate director's (Maria Balshaw) desire to make the museum more inclusive to everyone and increase attendance. I thought it would be nice to include an image from ...