About this Blog
Dear Reader
This Blog is essentially about photography, my photography although from time to time I may talk about other people’s work if it inspires me to do so and I can think of something stimulating or new to say about it. I write this blog and show my work because I feel the need to make images. Photography for me is an itch that I continually need to scratch. I realise that when something is put out into the public domain it tends to take on a life of it’s own and the author often loses control of both context and meaning. You see there tends to be three people involved in an image; the author, the subject and the viewer. I’d be lying If I said I wasn’t pleased and somehow feel vinidcated when someone ‘likes’ my Blog posting and takes the trouble to tell me so, but making images which please other people is not my motivation or my main aim. Neither do I particularly give a rat’s ass if my images are not particularly technically perfect at this stage, so please, by all means add something which might shed light on the context or the emotion my images evoke but make it interesting and not bland or trite. I see this blog as a kind of notebook and so should you. I reserve the right to be contradictory and or change my mind as often as I like.
All the images on this Blog are copyright of me unless otherwise stated and should not be copied or used without my permission. Do the right thing, ask don’t steal !
Thankyou.
I’ve sampled a bit of your posts, and like the way you think about your subjects.
A link to your musing on Garry Winogrand’s work is what brought me here (to the blog).
Still, I’m a bit disturbed by your total dependency on secondary, tertiary reports for your conclusions.
For example: Winogrand
Many of your conclusions/inferences have some valid basis. However, “Fragments from the Real World” pissed me off (and I was coming to some of the same conclusions of that exhibition/book, and am foot-oted).
But, the Garry I often met for coffee, interviewed many times, socialized with (watching him shoot out of a car window and PM partying) and made the last videotape interview of him (“The Photographic Vision” 1984) – was someone different.
And, I would surmise, the same would be told by the forty other odd people at his funeral.
Still, keep writing.
Mark Johnstone
February 23, 2012 at 7:06 am
Well Mark thankyou for your comments. As you can see I’ve approved this so others can get to see it. I make no claims as to the validity of my essay on Winogrand particularly in view of the fact that I never met Garry and of course as this was an essay for my MA and one which I did not have the luxury of time with secondary and tertiary reports were all I had to go on. At this juncture I’d like you to know that I did get in touch with that place in the US the CCP for as much research on Garry as they have but believe it or not they were as much use as a chocolate teapot. They directed me to Wikipedia !!! I tried to make my essay as balanced as possible looking at the subject from all angles and of course with an MA one needs to also consider all critiques.
I would have loved to have met Garry and I’m sure we would have got on fine.
These days I really only have time to talk about my images and to be honest I’m not really into blowing other people’s trumpets for them. I have a hard enough time doing my own stuff. Stay tuned and thanks again.
Andy G
Andy Greaves
February 23, 2012 at 2:33 pm
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