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November 27, 2006
On my holiday in Robe earlier this year I walked along the clifftops in the morning and evening from our holiday shack to the town centre with the poodles. So I could walk the dogs and take some snaps with a 35-mm. camera, "sketching" possible scenes for a latter visit.
The pictures are less still-lifes and more landscapes, less studies of things rather than impressions of place.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, cliffs, Robe, 2006
We photographers are often seen by the art world as being out there in the world making pictures naive to the workings of the art world and its aesthetic concerns. We are 'naive' in the sense that we don't know art history, the art styles favoured by the art institution, and the pictorial conventions (beauty, sublime, picturesque etc).
Gary Sauer-Thompson, cliffs, Robe, 2006
Art photographers are an exception to this naivety. Art Photographers were a product of the art school and embraced formalism in the 1970s and 1980s, and so were concerned with space and color and form, modes of representation, the original eye and the organization of the picture.
'Naive' in the sense of being amateurs who did not know the work of a de Kooning and or a Kline. They only know photography and its craft.
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funny,that the thing I notice most in this pic is the little white smile...such a desolate place with grey water and ugly rocks...but it seems to be Happy.