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October 09, 2006
Some argue that philosophical idealism is implicit within photography. I do not even understand that claim--I presume it has something to do with mind (of the photographer) and romanticism. Does that give us a romanticizing idealism? Photographs of plants and nature, which reflect the lingering undercurrent of Romanticism, are not inherently urbane or modern, and so their organicism is at odds with technological modernity.
This photo was taken when I was in Tasmania on holidays earlier this year. It was part of a series taken in and around Queenstown.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Queenstown, 2006
In the 1980s Australian photographers basically decamped from street photography (understood as reportage)as mimesis) to studio tableaux and artifice. That leaves out a photography that is concerned with the nature/ human intervention relationship; one bearing the traces of the old Romantic notion of the antagonism between city and countryside.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Rockface, Queenstown, 2006
One concerned with the traces of the human in nature.
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