Recently I was directed to this fantastic site called Square America. The site features collections of vernacular photos from our fellow Americans.
I am beginning to have a shift in thinking in my creative process as I have begun to ask the question, "Why do I shoot photographs?" It is a simple question that I thought I understood, but am realizing that there is a much more base element to my process which I think has to do with growing up with photographs. Not just media photos, but photos of the home and family life. I am not articulating this well, but there is something about how we live our lives through those images...they become our understanding of the past and our projection of the future. The image holds so much sway over us.
Totally man,
Like the shot of you geeked out in my parents sauna wearing a pair of tight blue mid-nineties flower motif swim trunks, steam on the lens. Full glory. Your boys are going learn something about you through that photo.
Josh
Wow. I never thought about that stuff yet. My children looking to figure me out via my collection of photos. Kinda scary and funny. Wow.
Yes, the music remains the same. Your thoughts on those images of the past strike a chord with me.
I. Love. This. Site.
There is something so beautiful about all of these pictures, and the fact that all of those pictures are, somewhere, real, physical images that someone scanned in. Film is fading quicker than I'd like to admit, and I almost resent the fact that I'll be able to show my children my life while sitting at a computer.
Furthermore, I love the time period these take place in. I love the big glasses and the couples kissing while holding a cigarette and the gaudy wallpaper. I miss it! Which, is clearly ridiculous being born in the mid-80s.
Zack, we should so get tennacious (translation: play tennis) sometime. In a future life, sure. I love the sport, playing and watching, though I'm not going to see action myself for some time.
Finished Rice's 'Christ the Lord' and actually liked it a lot. It was a quiet novel, and I appreciated it, though it seemed so audacious up front to try to fictionalize the life of Jesus at age 7. I thought it was well done, and I'm sure it was challenging. I never read any of her vampire chronicles, but she is very interesting.
jamin: i miss those times too...no seatbelts...no subcultures just regionalism. Raw Americana.
Jon: Just blew a serve by you down the middle. Who says we can't have summer in our minds? I hope you are healing along.