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iaaphoto

Welcome to my livejournal.

Feb 05, 2031 23:12

are you seriously looking at this livejournal?

go to ianaleksanderadams.com

the only interesting thing here is all the spam

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all the content since 2001 is archived at my website anyway.

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iaaphoto September 12 2007, 22:50:20 UTC

TL;DR

adamchristopher September 13 2007, 02:32:07 UTC

lol. same here, haha but i looked through it and skimmed it, i'm excited you did this and i'm totally going to treat myself to digging into it after i get some homework done...

iaaphoto September 13 2007, 02:38:42 UTC

haha it's odd to think of anyone reading my ramblings as a treat.

nicci September 12 2007, 23:05:07 UTC

interesting reading. though the technical work is nice, i prefer the experimental stuff, though it may be the technical stuff could pay the bills, so can the more arty weirdness. i know a couple of very successful photographers who cross process and push the color to all of those 'incorrect' places.

it's true though... you learn the rules. they're a guide to teach you how to make the work. once you know them, and how to use them to deconstruct a picture, you break them, and go crazy with the aesthetics. if it looks great, who gives a shit?

a lot of product/fashion photographers get upset when you use a shallow depth of field. i used to use photograph critiquing sites until i got annoyed with people whining about the whole frame not being in focus.

you'd think they lost their imagination along the way.

iaaphoto September 12 2007, 23:07:25 UTC

I think a lot of these people never went to art school, so they don't understand how long we spent learning the technical stuff, and just assume that things are wrong. But they can't be thinking aesthetically because of how they phrase it and what they pick up.. and because often the average joe on the street will like it or even love it. It's the people who have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and like to think they're the king of critique that are the problem.

You'd think they've heard of duchamp and challenging the idea of what is art, at least.

iaaphoto September 12 2007, 23:09:05 UTC

oh what's funny is that while product photographers get freaked out by shallow depth of field, food photographers seemed to have based an entire industry around it.

glamourously September 12 2007, 23:12:00 UTC

I really like your work, especially your experimental stuff.

iaaphoto September 12 2007, 23:13:19 UTC

thank you. I need to take some of the skills I developed while doing strange darkroom stuff and actually put it to use for my art someday.

abigail_nicole September 13 2007, 00:48:10 UTC

it does remind me a lot of writing. There's a time and place for everything; formal research writing, personal essays, jagged, abrupt short fiction, well-written dead baby jokes. Of course, that's just the art form I'm most familiar with and have had the most training with--I imagine all art forms are and can be the same way...that's why they're art.

iaaphoto September 13 2007, 00:52:16 UTC

yeah, I agree with that. You wouldn't turn in a limerick as a research paper just as I wouldn't send in the same photos I'd post in my blog to a magazine.

acko September 13 2007, 00:53:42 UTC

I sometimes get responses along the lines of "oh, this is wrong" about some seemingly technical aspect (exposure, focus, etc, instead of someone saying that something displeases them personally.

This is something that continues to confuse me about people in regard to art in every form. Music, painting, photography, whatever. People that have a concept that it's right or wrong or good or bad... I find it extremely frustrating.

What really blows my mind is that more often than not it comes from the art world. Artists, Musicians, etc. I've had far too many conversations on why "this sucks" or it's "all wrong". For the most part it seems to come from people earlier in their career too. Maybe they haven't found themselves yet or aren't comfortable with their own work, whatever. I don't know. But it is very nice to see when people do have the right attitude about it.

Thanks, and keep it up!

iaaphoto September 13 2007, 00:58:48 UTC

I find it really frustrating as well. Someone told me to not "give them any of that art is relative bullshit."

You can't tell a Duchamp fan not to question the nature of art.

I've said things suck before, but I'm usually talking about a bad burrito. Even with music I don't like I try to get into detail.