(embiggenable) • iPhone
book pages + covers ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone + µ4/3 pictures
OVER THE PAST WEEK OR SO I have not been "seeing it", picture making wise. Then, yesterday, the arrangement in my kitchen sink caught my eye.
After making the picture-as presented above-I decided it was time to start updating my various bodies of work by sorting through the last 12 months of made pictures and placing pictures in the appropriate body-of-work folders. I started with my kitchen sink pictures and realized that, after 5 years, it was time to make an updated kitchen sink book.
Most of my photo books usually have a quote culled primarily from the world of photography but now and again from the world of art. The quote in the kitchen sink book is from Jeff Wall:
Maybe the "trivial" is just a failed version of the "everyday." The everyday, or the commonplace, is the most basic and the richest artistic category. Although it seems familiar, it is always surprising and new. But at the same time, there is an openness that permits people to recognize what is there in the picture, because they have already seen something like it somewhere. So the everyday is a space in which meanings accumulate, but it's the pictorial realization that carries the meanings into the realm of the pleasurable.
I really like this quote. It could be used in almost every body-of-work photo book I make inasmuch as it could be applied to nearly every picture I make.
FYI, in the photo book there is an approximate 50/50 split of pictures made with the iPhone and those made with various Olympus µ4/3 cameras. I believe it would be impossible for anyone to identify which is which.