Chris Murray
Chris Murray is a full-time photographer, teacher, and author from New York State. His pictures should not meant to be a literal doc of the woods, mountains, and rivers of his house state, however slightly a artistic expression of his relationship with the locations that ceaselessly encourage him.
I by no means appreciated images. Not for the sake of images. I like the article. I like the images once you maintain them in your hand.~Robert Mapplethorpe
For a while, I’ve been questioning my love of images. It appears an nearly heretical thought to think about, given it’s what I do. Whether or not I name myself a photographer or a photographic artist, it’s what my life centres round. It has given my life function. And but, I ask myself, do I really like images, or as an alternative do I really like what images gives me? Is the act of images nothing greater than a way to an finish slightly than an finish in itself?
Out of curiosity, I Googled the time period “images for images’s sake,” a tackle the traditional “artwork for artwork’s sake” argument, a perception that artwork ought to exist impartial of any utility. As anticipated, “images for images’s sake” means one makes photographs as a result of it’s intrinsically rewarding and with out regard for fame, recognition, or social media “likes.” Honest sufficient, these are all very poor and insufficient causes for images. Curiously (and maybe tellingly), no definition listed creativity or self-expression as potential outcomes of images. Are these not a lot worthier causes?
Whether or not I name myself a photographer or a photographic artist, it’s what my life centres round. It has given my life function. And but, I ask myself, do I really like images, or as an alternative do I really like what images gives me?
For years my spouse and I’ve been planning a visit to Eire. When the time comes, I plan on leaving the digicam house. Other than the burden of getting to lug my gear round, the photographs I’d make can be largely superficial impressions of the Irish panorama. They might most probably be documentary in nature, goal representations of what I noticed. How may they be something however? I do know nothing of Eire aside from what I’ve seen in photographs.
