A Secret
One of the gifts I received for Christmas last year was a miniature digital camera, which turns out to take very poor quality and very interesting photos (we have a good quality full-size camera too.) I really love the photos from this camera - they are blurred and off-centre. I'm never really sure what I'm going to get when I shoot. Here's one of friends Kemp and Sarah. I love the capturing of the candid moment - what is being whispered? Do you like the strange quality of this photo?
Here's one of my boyfriend Steve. I love the texture of this because it is so grainy and his head got cut off. Maybe it is unusual to enjoy the flaws in these things, but I think it is the "accidental" quality that facinates me.
posted by Sarah at 9:58 a.m.
2 Comments:
Thanks Daniel for your positive comments! I agree that the quality of digital photographs is getting better and better, and I personally feel that the level of detail and sophistication makes images appear "hyper-real". I like these photos because they are fuzzy, and perhaps are more like the way we really "see" things around us on a day-to-day basis. I'll post more soon.
Not only is the photograph of "A Secret" candid, but it appears truer than life. Sarah's life energy is vivid, shimmering, and the blurred backlighting causes the couple's bond to be actually luminous. One can see the secret in her face, the knowing in her eyes, but by being out of focus, the knowledge is beyond the reach of the observer. You have captured the essence of the moment but not its trivial facts, creating an image of the moment and causing the moment to endure. It is not only her smile which beguiles, but the scene itself. Personal optics: where the artist has lease.
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