I understand the n
ecessary image.
I don’t understand photography.
Instructions:
Idea is everything.
The image exists in relation to the idea.
Beauty is useless.
It is endlessly desired and entirely useless.
When necessary – exploit beauty – to give the image that which is necessary.
Composition is crap.
When necessary – exploit composition – to trap the gaze of the viewer into the idea.
The image must live.
It must have a life beyond the problematics of the image itself.
The most inspiring image ever made is Nauman’s Failing to levitate in the studio.
It is everything to do with the crucial paradox of the artist’s intention.
It reveals that the inherent failure of all images is essential to the process,
and, that the images finished along the way never complete the necessary idea.
Rosemary Laing
http://nga.gov.au/tales/Rosemary.cfm
- Unquiet landscapes
- Theatrical , staged and performative - suspended midway between fantasy and reality.
- Renders the seemingly impossible, possible.
- Not through digital manipulation but deliberatephysical intervention
- Proposes a paradox
- Flying and soaring brides.
- She charts specific actions
- Photographs timely movement through absence.
- Refers to study of movement in modern art.
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