The most difficult part of making this photo was climbing the stairs at the Bedford L stop.
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This semester has flown by and I haven’t had much time to do anything except work, work, work. Sadly, my blog fell by the wayside. So, tonight, as I looked toward my computer from the middle of a pile of books, pencil firmly gripped between teeth, I decided to take a small break in order to report on the mass hysteria that has transposed in my life.
This semester, above all, has taught me that there is indeed more to life than photography. How is that? I am in a photography program and steeped up to my knees in every kind of image imaginable, but I feel further away from the medium than I did coming into the program. I think this has to do with two very strong factors from my life; 1. I was an actual working photographer before I came into this program and 2. I was only working in images I made “through the lens”. Both of these factors have changed in my life. I am no longer a working photographer and I am not making images traditionally “through the lens”. I feel like the artist I was when I left my undergrad program. This may seem like a step backwards, however, I have never felt more in touch with my original goals as an artist. This excites me and scares me. I am excited to be finally fulfilling a desire I have had for many years to further my education in the arts and I am scared because I think this might make me less employable than ever. Employ-ability aside, I am glad to have stepped out of the proverbial box I was in while living in San Francisco.
Things to do:
Write paper on photography’s relationship to painting
Create a stereographic image for digital design class
Put together a presentation on the database
Attempt to wrap up my critique work for this semester (I will be posting some images during break)
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Photographic Materials
©Daniel Gordon
I want to continue the conversation from my previous post entitled “Galleries, Galleries, Galleries” on the realization I am having about photographers using “traditional” methods of manipulation in their work. This topic was brought up in my theory class this week and I would like to add a couple other shows to the list that reflect this theme. This time the shows are at two heavy-hitting museums, The Met and MOMA. The Met’s show, Surface Tension, is a grouping of work that explores alternative photographic methods of production. You see artists like Gerhard Richter, Wolfgang Tillman, Marco Breuer, Christian Marclay, and Adam Fuss among others. The majority of these artists have one thing in common, they used “traditional” (non-digital) methods of manipulation in order to create a photographic image. The other show at MOMA, New Photography, is a collection of work by 6 emerging photographers; Daniel Gordon, Sterling Ruby, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Walead Beshty and Sara VanDerBeek. While much of the content of the pieces in this show reads on a sophomoric level, i.e. graffiti with blood on it, mutilated female bodies, ads in newspapers, the ideas for the production of the work are advanced. It keeps with the same theme I am beginning to see all over the place, and dare I say that it’s a reaction to the mass consumer world of digital imaging? Perhaps artist photographers are indeed moving away from Photography (with a capital “P”) and into a hybridized state of production as a critical response to this mass consumer photographic culture? Whatever it is, it seems to be an emerging trend.
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Back in SF
©Corinne Schulze
I am headed home this week to San Francisco and in an effort to share some of my knowledge of San Francisco, I am going to post my schedule this week for food and fun. Continue reading
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