I am rereading John Berger. He writes:
I am contemplating publishing a book of images. Perhaps 30 images or so. In the last four years I have taken more than 100,000 images, and of those made several hundred images. This idea of a book has me looking at the made images again and wondering as to what traces the collection suggests.
I think of this book as a trace, a visible mark that might suggest what I have witnessed through the lens of my camera. A personal geography of sorts, I have passed through. The marks we leave in many ways tell who we are, perhaps far better than our words.
So I am hoping you might help me. I am posting several of the images and would appreciate it if you
You can post your response on the blog or send it to me directly at maryann.reilly58@gmail.com.
Appreciative.
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.A trace.
I am contemplating publishing a book of images. Perhaps 30 images or so. In the last four years I have taken more than 100,000 images, and of those made several hundred images. This idea of a book has me looking at the made images again and wondering as to what traces the collection suggests.
I think of this book as a trace, a visible mark that might suggest what I have witnessed through the lens of my camera. A personal geography of sorts, I have passed through. The marks we leave in many ways tell who we are, perhaps far better than our words.
So I am hoping you might help me. I am posting several of the images and would appreciate it if you
- might suggest what traces the images suggest
- offer any commentary about the set or a particular image.
You can post your response on the blog or send it to me directly at maryann.reilly58@gmail.com.
Appreciative.
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| The Constancy of Waves |
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| Wall Street |
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| To Serve and Protect |
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| Homeless in New York |
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| Salvation |
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| At the Station |
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| Darkness Becomes a Reservoir |
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| Down by the River |
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| The Familiar Falling Away |
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| On Grafton Street |
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| Birds Rising |
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| Coming through the Rye |
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| A Woman Gathering Silence |
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| Want |
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| Ordinary Angels |
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| Zen |
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| American Bus Stop V: Prisons |
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| Dreaming of David Hockney |
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| Intersection |
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| Remembrance |
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| Etta and Butch Go For a Ride |
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| Trees in Reservoir, IV |
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| Soar |
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| Be For Me, Like Rain |
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| Bridge in Fog |
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| Bearings Taken |
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| Surfaced |
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| Gates |
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| House at the End of the Tracks |
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| Calvary |
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| Road Work |
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| What Felled You is Important |
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| Shadow and Light |
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| Endings |
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| Rising |
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| Once at Grand Central |
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| Upper East Side |
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| Out in the Desert |
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| Watching |
