marcia’s musings

Over the past few weeks, Peter Fraser has been inspiring and guiding our group of aspiring documentary photographers in liberating our vision to be able to see the world around us. Our only directions: to “see men like trees, walking”, to work in colour, and to take as inspiration John Szarkowski’s “Introduction to William Eggleston’s Guide.” A quote from the essay:

Form is perhaps the point of art. The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive. In photography the pursuit of form has taken an unexpected course. In this peculiar art, form and subject are defined simultaneously. Even more than in the traditional arts, the two are inextricably tangled. Indeed, they are probably the same thing. Or, if they are different, one might say that a photograph’s subject is not its starting point but its destination.

In these images of ordinary objects, form becomes the subject.

- London, clear night, 13 degrees, listening to Radio Citizen’s “The Hop“