PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO III

I recently read Screaming Life by Charles Peterson and had a revelation about the concerts that I have been shooting here in Lethbridge. Charles in his foreword describes how he considers traditional photographer’s when doing shows. He references many greats such as Gary Winogrand and Robert Frank and how they contributed to the photos he was making. I had never considered the photos I was making for these shows art until I read this book and it totally changed my outlook on this type of photography. This most recent show I focused on the people and space and how they interact with one another. In the past I was caught up in the bands and how could I make them look cool. I traded this idea with caring more about the documentation element of these shows and how I could visually describe the culture at these events.

Stephen Shore’s form and pressure is an incredible way of analyzing photography on a painterly level. Currently I am in a scientific liberal education course where we look at the history of science and where it comes from. I analyzed Thomas Kuhn’s paradigms which essentially is the idea that science heavily relies on the scientific community and pre established theories to farther advance science. I feel as if Shore is also hinting at this advancement in form and pressure with his Kepler example and the difference between the heliocentric and the geocentric earth models. Shore uses examples of his own work days apart to see the difference considering the form of objects and the relationships they have with another. Shore tries to capture the scene more as if he is there within the photograph and what it is like to be there and not overly manufacturing the image. He describes the difference between structure and composition which in turn are actually quite different. Composition is a sy...