I just started this blog and I want to share my thoughts with you. I know this is supposed to be blogger and how I'm supposed to tell everything about my life and every little thing I do but I have decided against that. I've made this blog to focus on something different. I have a whole other blog to which you can read about but this one is solely dedicated to photography and whatever else I come across.
Well then, I want to get right into it and blogs are the way to do it nowadays, am I right?
But anyways, I just reading about this show at the Met in NYC and they have this exhibition called Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography. I started to think about this while I was reading and I thought to myself, "Well, don't all photos create a sense of illusion instead of truth?". But I'm probably thinking about this a little more than most people. This show is supposed to show how pics "create a sense of ambiguity about what is real and what is not". The way I always think about it is that all photos do it that! The pictures that I take and the pictures that you take all do that. Even those photos that show things that are magnified are difficult to distinguish what is what. Let's say, if I were take pictures of my house (which I did last week btw), and told you that this house was where a bunch of people were murdered, there is no way that you would know if this was true or not.
I'm always one to think about art differently from others and when I looked at the photos of this show it was no different. But the images that I saw on the Met website show some really great photos. One of the ones I thought weren't all that great was the one by Hiroshi Sugimoto of the polar bear. Here is another prime example on how without knowing what was going on, the picture looks like very fake and deemed unworthy of being in the Met.
However, David Levinthal's images are quite astonishing. They depict what appears to be soldiers photographed on a gloomy and misty day moving forward to meet with the enemy. However, with further inspection (and a little bit of help from the description), they are in fact toy soldiers. I really enjoyed the technique of this one picture because it really enforces what I said before. All photos are essentially fake. Most believe that they portray accurate representations the subject and this is very true. But that is all there is to it though, no one can truly know what is going on. This is the reason why I love photography in the first place (not so much about the technical aspects of it though, if thats what you are thinking)!!!
Well, there is a lot more about the show at the Met but I will keep writing about that later, I have some stuff to take care of. Thanks for spending the time to read my rant, LOL.
