Caught the sun burst out from behind a cloud today coming off Walton Moss, Cumbria, UK.
Sunburst
Treated Sunset
Reflective Locations
This is a post about French conceptual artist Salomé-Charlotte Camors. She uses art as research and says 'Research is fundamental in my work – probably more than technics because the meaning is the only thing that really matters to me and I have to transcribe this meaning in my work in an understandable way for the viewer.'
Quote – Nacio Jan Brown on identity
Pat B Allen, art therapist, says 'Art is a way of reserching what you believe.'
Quote – Saul Leiter on photography
Saul Leiter on how the artform is knowledge. Words are not needed. We can think in images.
Fairytale Prisoner by Choice: The Photographic Eye of Melania Trump – Art as Research
This is a great use of photography as research. Of particular interest is the power of the snapshot, the image we take without thinking, rather than the 'artistic' image we make through a deliberate act with a clear aesthetic, political or personal intention. Posting, showing or sharing a snapshot, however, is deliberate and gives us insight into the photographer as much as the thing being photographed.
Landscape Stories – Issue 30 – Visions of the world
A good photographic site, well worth a visit.
A Life Story in a Single Shot
As another person commented on Tumbler where I saw this. This single shot is really quite chilling. It tells a story of the life and death of an entire family in about 10 seconds.
Dazed and Confused – Behind the Masc : Rethinking Masculinity
From 2019 this article ticks two boxes that interest me. Discussions about what constitutes masculinity and an example of art used as a form of research. Given an assumption that the patrriarchy still dominates power, then ideas about what it is to be a man must lie at the centre of patriachal power. These ideas hurt everyone, including those men in power. Researching this through words and images are presented for witnessing, like quantitative research is submitted to peer review. The responce is ambiguous, personal, situational and emergent, like art. This is a great collection of photography and journalism as research.
A Ragged Memoriam – Outdoor Art
“Because we arrived without sponsorship or political agenda, people always received us with open arms,” JR says. “They are happy to see another approach, in which they are actors.” JR (French, born 1983). 28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Action dans la Favela Morro da Providência, Favela de Jour, Rio de Janeiro, 2008. Installation image. Wheat-pasted posters on buildings. © JR-ART.NET