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I HAVE BEEN MAKING PHOTOGRAPHS WITH THE CHUZHAO camera on a regular enough basis that I have added a gallery on my HOME page for the pictures. For sure there are many more to come. Could I be tempted to stop making straight photographs? No. Never. That’s cuz …..
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…. there is the gift that keeps on giving; everyday life and the kitchen sink.
Speaking of which, the wife and I are leaving early this Sunday AM for a 4 day / 3 night meander about the Adirondacks. The purpose of the drive about is for me to make some photographs for the Adirondack Survey / Guide project. Specifically, I will concentrating on the lower eastern quadrant of the Park. That’s an area of the Park that I do not regularly traverse so I do not have many photos thereof for the project.
This came to my attention––on hindsight––when I was assembling the latest version of my project book, due to the fact that I might have made a mistake; unlike the first proof book in which the left hand pages opposite the photo pages were left blank, in this second version I decided to name, in a subtle, small typeface, the location of each photo on the facing pages. In doing so, that drew my attention to the fact that I was lacking photos from the previously mentioned southeastern quadrant of the Park. Therein is the reason for my upcoming drive about. However ….
…. it has occurred to me that the inclusion of photo locations in the book may have been a mistake. Why so? That’s cuz, when viewers looked at the first proof edition of the book––the one without locations mentioned––no one seemed to care about the actual locations of the photos. To the contrary, the book left them with the overall impression of daily life in the Park. Which is not to write that they didn’t recognize some locations but it seemed to me that it was the totality of the body of work, not the location of individual photographs, that was what created the impression of everyday life.
That written, I would hope it would be understood by viewers of the book––or of an exhibition thereof––that my intent in the making of the work was/is to create an art project not a travel guide. An intent I hope I made clear––if viewers are paying attention––in my artist statement wherein I stated that the work was “created as an engagement of personal vision rather than as a topographic documentary”.
So, in any event and all of that written, I have been left with the question of whether or not to include the photo locations in the final version of the book.