2019/10/30
2019/10/25
Documentary or Art?
"With our modern understanding of the vicissitudes of photography, how do we reconcile our knowledge of the malleability of the photograph with our cultural reliance on the image as evidence to form our collective memories? Even though critics and scholars debate whether photographs are “true,” generally the viewing public still intuitively or rationally believes that what appears in the photograph existed in front of the camera. Even when almost all digital images are retouched post-production, the public still believes in photographic truth. Viewers might distrust “the media,” but they still believe the photograph. The general audience doesn’t really care about the philosophical nuances of photographic truth. Viewers generally believe that even if photographs are manipulated, the changes are modest, and irrelevant to the truth of the event. In fact, most post-production only alters the original; it doesn’t reconstruct it. Post-production usually doesn’t so completely erase the original image as to negate its indexicality. Viewers also are not engaged in the debate about the profound philosophical difference between analog and digital photography. To them, an image is an image is an image."
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2019/10/20
C Roads & Other Adventures?
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| Borung, Victoria, Australia. 2019-10-18 17:00:01 |
The parameters are simple. I drive for an hour or so on any of the main highways west or north. Then once I leave the freeway or highway attempt to follow only C roads. Usually I have to cross The Great Dividing Range to really see some changes in environment and culture. This trip the second for the year was no exception. I choose my route by considering the light and the amount of time I may need to get home.
This trip found me in a place called Borung. A small hamlet/village about 30 mins north east of Wedderburn. The hamlet consisted of a few houses, and a disused wheat silo. Many of the houses were run down, the primary school closed.
I made this image at Borung, but worry is it a trope?
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2019/10/19
2019/10/18
David Campany Quote
“There is always a tension between the photograph as artwork and document; between choice and automatism; between intention and chance; between system and intuition; between individual image and its place in a body of work; and between what can be known consciously and what can only be felt unconsciously.”
Pg 126 Stephen Shore, MOMA
ISBN 978-1-63345-048-6
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2019/10/17
Flickr, Explore and Stats?
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| My current top 3 most viewed images, above the older 3. |
Jimbo Boy at #4 and East Bentleigh at #6 were for many years my most viewed images. But with North Melbourne hitting top spot briefly in 2018, then the latest three moving the rest down it seems changes are indeed afoot.
For many years this picture was my most viewed; albeit probably for the wrong reasons. It has fallen way down the the list to number 23.
For many years this picture was my most viewed; albeit probably for the wrong reasons. It has fallen way down the the list to number 23.
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2019/10/14
Vale Harvey Benge [27 July 1944 – 7 October 2019]
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| Mr. Benge's blog screen grabbed on 14th of October 2019 |
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| A selection of Harvey Benge's books as listed by lens culture. |
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2019/10/12
2019/10/05
2019/10/04
Scanned 5x4 film & upcoming exhibition
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| Along Arumpo Road Circa 1996 |
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| Perry's Sandhills, Wentworth circa 1996 |
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| Near Broken Hill circa 1996 |
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| Seventh Street, Mildura circa 1996 |
Until scanning them I was reluctant to make prints especially on large and expensive paper as these images often have defects undetectable on a contact print. Once enlarged of course the defects too are enlarged. Removal of these kinds of defects was never something I learned at college.
Scanning the negs and retouching them using digital tools like photoshop bring these pictures back to life. Given the cheap price of the scans, I may now use this workflow to make large prints of my older 5x4 negatives, for future exhibitions.
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2019/10/01
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