color

The MO-KAN project is getting under my skin. I have even begun experimenting with color, something that feels sort of sacrilegious. I needed some sort of permission to do this, and found it in this excerpt from a primer on how to look at photographs. Sometimes I forget the choices are all mine!

“Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene – simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a moment of exposure and by selecting a plane of focus."

From “The Nature of Photographs” by Stephen Shore