anything goes…?
Hey, it’s art! Can’t be panned! It’s a personal journey! It’s art!
I prefer Beaumont Newhall’s approach:
- “The camera is a deceptive tool. With today’s technology mediocre results can be achieved automatically. Unfortunately, mediocrity is all too often confused with success; we are too easily pleased.”
- Beaumont Newhall, “One Mind’s Eye -The Portraits and other Photographs of Arnold Newman.” (1974)
May 22, 2012 at 2:21 pm
You know the real thing when you see it, but when you don’t see it, it is easy to just want to please your own eye, as Mr. Newhall suggests.
When trying to create art with a camera, or anything, it is easy to just want to tickle a capricious public or mimic the achievement of others, and it takes courage and perseverance to go beyond that, giving yourself permission to be the artist, understanding fully that there are no guarantee of success…
Often, I am ready to quit even knowing very well that the artist creates in spite of either public success or none, and that success and the perceived lack of success are both the same great dangers to the process of creating. And that accepting both equally is imperative to growth as an artist.