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Meditations November 6, 2010

Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Education, Fine Art , trackback

I have just come across the work of Aline Smithson and her thoughts on photography and had to share them. She is a photographer and educator who writes about photography thoughtfully and intelligently. There is a series on her website taken with a Diana camera twhere she deconstructs her images, cuts negatives, overlaps them, adds text,  adds oil washes and ignores the idea of the perfect print. In the process she connects us with the quandary between analogue and digital, between the historic and the contemporary and makes sense of it in a remarkably logical way.

“Shadows and Stains, Notes From A Darkroom

I’ve been thinking about photography non- stop this past year- its pursuit, the business of it, the idea of selling an image, the artist’s viewpoint, the MFA school of imagery, the death of the wet darkroom, iconic photography, toy cameras and digital cameras, editions and print sizes, old rules, new challenges- all the currents we photographers have to navigate in today’s photographic waters. As a darkroom printer I have found the meditative and creative state that I experience so important to my work- it’s where I make my mark, it’s where much of the thinking about the image takes place. Losing that experience as part of the process is not an option I want to face.”

http://www.alinesmithson.com/

AS

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