Tag: john blakemore

Another World

Luca, Kiran, Craig and the Star Wars Cupcake.
Laurel Lake, NH. July, 2012.

 We crave to bring the imagined into existence. Many artists have spoken of this in numerous ways, and all summed up with ‘making the invisible visible’. But it may be possible that phenomena crave to shape us, in spite of and despite our sense of self; that ‘we’ are constantly dissolving and reconstituting. That we are, simply, a movement. And what shapes us comes out of darkness, and becomes light as it take shape.

UPDATE: I just came across this interview with John Blakemore, by Jim Casper for Lensculture:

“One cannot photograph experience, but to have lived it can change and develop habitual ways of seeing and of knowing.” — John Blakemore

John Blakemore: from the Tulip series, on the Lensculture blog

What I owe to Paul Graham, Raymond Moore and John Blakemore

 

I just received Paul Graham’s astonishing book, ‘Europe: America‘, and realized how the influence of certain British photographers is surfacing in my work. Along with Graham’s use of sequence and formal and symbolic cross-referencing, Raymond Moore‘s ability to transform time and space into a mesmerizing experience (quite different from Bresson’s decisive moment) and John Blakemore‘s ability to strangely link emotion to a poignant yet abstract type of photographic vision have had a profound and unshakeable effect on my work. The above two images, which are adjacent to each other  in a book dummy I am currently working on, attest to this. Thank you Paul, Raymond and John!

Addendum: This arrived in the mail from Robert Clarke-Davis

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