Sunday, July 07, 2013

By Design

A couple of nights ago my friend Elizabeth Daley, the powerhouse dean of the film school at USC, said that she had particularly liked last week’s photographs of the grain silos.  That was, in more or less her words, “because I like the ones that are designed.”   Now truth told every image I share has been designed or at least I think it has, which is to say consciously composed.  But there must be a difference in the ones that seem obviously designed and all the rest.  Equally true is that I don’t know for sure which ones pass the design test. 

It seems to me that the abstract work is more likely to be seen as designed.   But then, the corrugated bin landscape last week is representational, tells the whole story yet is “designed” in Elizabeth’s view.   Is that because silos are inherently aesthetic forms or that the composition works?  Or both?

Early on in my digital transition my images were entirely about composition and I worried that they lacked emotion.  Still do.  Even now, left to my own inclinations, I could easily design clever little vignettes in the viewfinder and call it a day.  Presumably though when design and evocative content  intersect you've produced a winner.  “Am I right or am I right?” as John Goodman's Walter Sobchak character asked in The Big Lebowski.

The ones I’m showing and telling today are ones that seem to be more about than form than anything else.  To show gamut I've included a still life, a landscape, an architectural, a nude and a sketch of winter.  There is no intended message or obvious emotional content in these so if it’s there I got lucky.
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Daryl A. Black said...

The juxtaposition of the adobe and human body is wonderful. I can see these two pieces in large format, side by side, at an exhibit.

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