From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 06/26/01-06:42:03 AM Z
> Dear Joe and Gary and any others contemplating entering this discussion:
> Thank you so much for your comments regarding photographing for alternative
> processes. I asked my question on the list to elicit some responses, not only
> to meet and discuss them with people in Santa Fe but to share them, as well
> on line. I am very interested in the origin of ideas as part of the creative
> process, and particularly as they are embedded in the alternative processes
> involving photography.
Ernestine,
Just to extend the discussion, for me photographs always begin with
observation and experience, not ideas. When I have an abstract idea that I
really want to share, it ends up as a prose essay, not visual art. Also,
just for my approach, photographic craft (a term I prefer to technique,
process, etc) is just the set of mental and physical skills that allow a
print to be made that conveys essential parts of that initial observation
and experience to a perceptive viewer.---Carl
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