“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
— Andy Warhol
Word falling...photo falling, as William Burroughs may have once written - so I played around taking photos in the flat on Saturday, satisfying the urge, paraphrasing László Moholy-Nagy, to use an eye outside my body. The camera eye has held much appeal of late, as a break from exercising my own in the service of image-making. Not that one doesn't use one's eyes to take photos, of course, but I like the idea of the mechanical eye seeing for me. Once removed, how does 'reality' look? Is it reality once captured in photo form? That and other philosophical questions will remain unanswered by me. Suffice to say that objects somehow become transformed when captured by the camera; even mundane, everyday ones.
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