Door of an old shed
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On an afternoon stroll I found a little shrine tucked away over on the other side of the tracks. I was mulling over a comment Kevin made about photographic clichés and their transcendance (or, as I usually find, their lack of trascendance).
The gravitational pull of the cliché is something I have a hard time escaping. Why, when with the merest firing of the mental jetpack we could zoom across the vastness of experiential space, do we circle around these dying stars?
I would like to think there’s something to the idea of transcending cliché which, if so, could probably only be done by first mastering this way of thinking or seeing. I’m probably just rationalising my failure to see imaginatively or try something new (an important life skill nonetheless) but you have to have faith that the breakthrough is coming.
I might try to put together a few pictures from that walk which I photographed with the theme of cliché in mind — something along the lines of “Clichés have feelings, too” — in a small and none too daring attempt to figure out the siren song of the tired and well-worn.
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Posted to Photographs • 2004.04.04 (Sun) • 13:35
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Posted by Hasan 2004.04.04, 18:11
Don’t overthink, dying stars have the best colors. What’s cliche about a hole? A camera is a hole, a pin-hole camera. A starry black hole. My feet are cliche’d but I need to walk, no jetpack please, not in the shrine.
Posted by keefer 2004.04.04, 22:22
Why do you have to be so cerebral about? Can’t you just post the picture and be done with it? It’s like you want to cover your ass from all angles, so you need say, Yeah I know some art critic might say the pictures are banal, but I did it deliberately as an ironic commentary on banality.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2004.04.04, 22:40
Jeremy, ignore Keefer. Continue exercising the “conscious use of skill and creative imagination”…emphasis on the conscious. It’s not just what you do, it’s what you think when doing it, that sets you apart. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by jh 2004.04.05, 00:43
It’s a fair enough point, but I don’t think it’s happening here. These will succeed or fail pretty obviously, and there’s no arse covering to be had when you’ve spelled out the rules.
Posted by CaptainClimate 2004.06.14, 13:09
Does anyone know the source for a photo of Mt Fuji that has been making the rounds via email. It is a day shot with a cloud that looks like a big floppy hat.
Posted by jh 2004.06.14, 14:29
I don’t know the source, but I’ve seen the same or similar pictures. That big floppy hat type cloud is particular Fuji meteorological motif that’s quite spectacular. Never seen it myself, unfortunately.
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