Sunday, February 8, 2009

Thursday 1/29 Entry


Unreal

As has been drilled into us, photography is real and documentary. We photograph what is there and, without significant post production, not too much more. To me, it is the artist's job to show the viewer only what they want to be seen, and nothing more. To me, the question should always remain in a viewer's mind of just how real a photograph is.

In this series, as with most of my other work, the viewer's sense of unreality is very important to me. I want the viewer to realize that this cannot possibly be a spontaneous scenario while also not quite being able to figure out what happened to it.

1 comment:

Teacher Tom said...

This is supposed to be your research, for your work. If the posts are this late, and as short as this one is... I am not sure why you do it at all. Jenee', you can do soooo much better than this.