SHAPING AND RESHAPING TRADITIONAL DOCUMENTS

MIXING MEDIA, MESSAGES, AND METAPHORS

It was my belief that documentary photography was a necessary step in changing people's behavior - if they only saw the world as I saw it, they would do what was necessary to improve the situation. So I saw the job of a documentary photographer as illustrating the world from my viewpoint. Years of experience have brought me to the conclusion that it is not a lack of information that keeps people from doing right, it is their vested interest.

What I am now attempting to do is view the world from the vantage point of others, because sometimes we are so close to something that we cannot really see it. This I have done in two ways, stepping into different cultures and transforming the documentary photograph into different media. What parallels or repetitions does one see? What variations on a theme? What contrasts between world views?

single lens reflex vs view - electronic vs silver - color vs black and white -
black vs white - photography vs painting - miniature vs mural -
positive vs negative - transparency vs print - watercolor vs oil - hobbyist vs pro - graphic art vs fine art - pictoral vs conceptual - art vs science - two dimensional vs three dimensional - left vs right - old vs young - platinum vs silver -
male vs female - gay vs straight - straight vs manipulated - developing vs developed - underdeveloped vs overdeveloped - process vs content -
technology vs theology - near vs far - me vs you


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