Found Images

I am looking at photography (and moving image) as found imagery.

This is moving on from previous thinking:
http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/photography-channels-vision-choice.html

And also last years work with street compositions and bricks, which led to Construction:
http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/street-compositions.html
http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/construction.html

I like this idea or concept about all photography being found imagery, no matter how accidental, momentary or deliberate the set up. I'm not seeking to argue the extremes, but to explore the relationship of the lens with the image, and what the photographer sees and captures when they intend to take an image. All stages are the editing and framing, from noticing the subject, to the final processing. Sometimes I take a photograph specifically for a processing stage, eg, there may be something about an image which I imagine in negative and take it with that intent.

13th November 2013

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Look at that - almost an entire year since I added to something at this particular blog title, although I have added to the thoughts and comments in others. In organising this year and anticipating research and reflections, I had probably aimed for some kind of evenness of scale, largely so that I could keep track and refer to my own insights, if any.

At this stage I conclude that the concept of Found Imagery is an interesting and open-ended idea which I hope to keep open and never close and conclude - it's an idea and not something to be defined. Sometimes it's pleasant and fruitful to roll around certain possibilities and ideas in the mind, and to explore opposites and even illogical ways of thinking for a while. No need to be too definitive about everything.

11th November 2014