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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

In the Eye of the Beholder

I like these pictures.
I hope you do too.
 Look at them and then go to the bottom to see what I have to say about them.
As always, depending on your browser, clicking on one will enlarge it in one way or another.




These four photos are all variants on street photography.
The top image was taken as I rode up an escalator from an underground passage out of a train station. It was morning and only a few days after the scaffolding came down from the newly renovated building across the street from the exit.

The next is a photo of the plaza outside the southwest exit from Penn Station during a snowfall. It shares the presence of a food cart with the previous photograph as well as obscure lighting.

The last two of these photos were taken in art museums.

I go to look at the art yet as I stroll through the corridors and galleries carrying my camera, I think of myself as being inside an indoor park and my fellow strollers sometimes become the subject of the little bit of art I make. There is a small irony in making art out of the place where art is displayed and the people coming to look but "meta" is a contemporary form of expression and even when I'm not thinking about it, this is something bound to pop up.

Photography in the 21st Century has been partially denatured by the ubiquity of the phone cam combined with software which allows anyon e with a phone to take snapshots anywhere but it doesn't make all of them into photographers.

Look at these photos and tell me they are the sort of things you imagine.--

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