> DH: Well that's what you've to do, meaning, I realised what's
> happening
> with photography. Photography's changing. The digits are a profound
> change. The hand is actually being brought back into the camera. Er,
> meaning it's going towards painting. The problem is, photographic dyes
> and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.
(Talking to myself, apology.) This idea of Hockney as a colourist and
the bright saturated LA colour of acrylics is more a meta-colourist,
which is to say the colour of colour. The same could be said of Bacon or
Freud, to name other painters of his time and circle. It follows this
line laid down also by Warhol which becomes an immanent critique at the
meta-level of Warhol's works. A critique of the notion of colour itself.
The opening helicopter shots of the "Sound of Music", pure Hollywood.
Also interesting in terms of the hard UV saturated colour out here in
the margins of the Aust outback which obliterates colour. So the only
film choice can be monochrome, since colour retreats to the deep shadows
or heavy clouded days or early morning late winter mists over the river.
But to use black and white film today requires a profound encounter with
colour, another meta-colourist understanding. So there can be no more
photo-journalist Tri-X black and white into the sun with a 20mm Nikkor
lens, this lens for the dynamic range.
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have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird
just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
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