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Some photographs may stand alone but in general I tend to look for context when I look at photographs. I also believe other people (non photographers) do as well. Case in point, I recently produced a body of work - as they like to say a "coherent body of work" - in a way I have never been able to do before. When I showed individual images, people thought they were OK but when I had an exhibit of 24 prints, people were able to understand the larger picture and really created a story; not necessarily my story, but in their own mind. That was very exciting for me.
Sometimes We Differ
I didn't want to steal Ctein's thunder on Thursday, but it might be worth noting that the subject he wrote about is perhaps the clearest instance I can think of where his opinion and mine are more or less opposed. I've argued many times and sometimes at length that photographs differ from art in...
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