On Art, Light & Being Human
Working directly, without the camera, with just paper, subject matter and light, offers an opportunity to bridge the divide between self and other – or what is being explored. There is a contact with the materiality of things that allows a different kind of conversation to happen. One is changed and in turn changes – a kind of dialogue between inside and outside unfolds.2
2 Martin Barnes, [in conversation with Susan Derges], Shadow Catchers – Camera-less Photography, (London: Merrell, 2010), 88.
On Representation Towards Abstraction
As a start I suggest that an exhibition be organised of "Abstract Photography"; that in the entry form it be distinctly stated that no work will be admitted in which the interest of the subject-matter is greater than the appreciation of the extraordinary. Alvin Langdon Coburn[1]
[1] Alvin Langdon Coburn, “The Future of Pictorial Photography,” in Beaumont Newhall, Photography: Essays & Images: Illustrated Readings in the History of Photography, accessed from http://www.masters-of-photography.com/C/coburn/coburn_articles2.html 14/3/17 , page not defined, 11:50am - Online e-book.
Copyright: Circles of Light: An Investigation of the Photographic Medium and a Chance Encounter Chris Byrnes 2017