The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.1
Joseph Campbell
I feel it important to put the pieces as a whole into a digestible context, and then explain how I focus on the individual image rather than on a grandly engineered, conscious process of creating a single vision. In the most grandiose of terms, I am attempting to create and document a fabricated world that exists on the margins of our day-to-day reality. I know. I rolled my eyes too when I read that last statement, but this is simply an explanation of my thought processes as I work on an individual image or small series. ...
Get Photography Beyond Technique: Essays from F295 on the Informed Use of Alternative and Historical Photographic Processes now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
