Alan George - Immediate Vicinity:
John Darwell - Not Starting From Here:
Thoughts on photography and what inspires it - books, poetry, film, art. And various other ramblings.
"The Muse of photography is not one of Memory's daughters, but Memory herself." John Berger
"The photograph isn't what was photographed. It's something else. It's a new fact." Gary Winogrand
"The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It’s not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You’re not supposed to look at the thing, you’re supposed to look through it. It’s a window.” John Szarkowski"Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination." Werner Herzog
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First off, Expiration Notice is a relatively new blog that I found through photo-muse. It’s an online gallery for emerging photographers that are 35 or older. Odd requirement, but that’s just my opinion. This particular blog that I have chosen to look at is focused around an artist named Alan George and his project called Immediate Vicinity.
I enjoy how he talks about how the photographer has to capture his or her own reality, and create that simple concept into an interesting image. The photographs that he creates may seem simple enough, just because they are of ordinary objects, like a chair and a television. But for me, I will probably never see those items myself, being that his location is far away from me and that I would probably never, ever take the same commute that he does. Even though these are items he sees monotonously every day, we as the viewer can appreciate them as artifacts and take in their simple message as desolate, yet somewhat homely, items.
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