My interview debut
Can’t get enough of me? Check out this interview on You Call This Photography? A big thank-you to the guys at Farting on Thunder for asking the questions. I had a lot of fun answering them.
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posted by Liz at 8:08 AM
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Liz -- Just read your interview and curious why you are so down on thinking about art? Isn't critique just a translation of feeling? You can say I like this artist or that piece of work because I like how it makes me feel, but if the conversation ends there we haven't shared much.
Also, you should take a look at Taryn Simon's The Innocents project. Her portraits of wrongly convicted men at the sites of their alleged crime will make you feel something.
Thanks for checking out the interview, Dave.
It's interesting that you came away from it with the impression that I was down on thinking about art and that it was all about feeling for me. I do think about art, but what I was trying to convey in the interview is that the first thing that matters to me, and the thing that matters most in terms of which photographs I'm drawn to, is whether I feel anything when I look at the images. If I don't, I may respect the work (as I do Simon's), but I won't have the kind of connection to it that I do if the feeling is there (as it is, for me, with Renaldi's). The conversation doesn't end with feeling; feeling is where it begins.
As for critique being "just a translation of feeling," I guess the simple answer, for me at least, is no, I don't see it that way. Some critique does draw on feeling, I'm sure, but most of what I've read (and I admit that I'm not an art scholar) seems very much in the mind to me. Which, as I've said, is fine and dandy. It's just not what I get off on myself, and it's nothing I want anywhere near me when I'm in the midst of photographing.
Finally, I first became aware of Simon through The Innocents, and I greatly prefer it to her more recent work, not just because of the feeling she evokes but because of what she's trying to say and how she says it.
I hope this clarifies for you where I'm coming from, but either way, thanks again for your interest!
Well, I didn't ask soon enough. ;)
Seriously though, I would love to interview you for my series on women photographers and building a genre. In a couple of weeks, maybe?
Sure! I'm not sure how much more I have to say, but I'll give it a shot.
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