I am sure that's right
I hesitated in my Cameron - Brooks snap yesterday when I reread it and
looked at eyes being obsessed and obsessed with themselves!
But that is how it is, I decided, if we include as part of or aspects of
our eyes those parts of the brain interpreting and controlling them
I was thinking when I wrote of Sandra Blow also of Peter Lanyon, another
painter I greatly admire; but I really don't think *this was there. Next
time I find myself with something of his I'll have a look! But he was into
building up layers of seeing, differently angles, rather than the
evanescent moments of seeing; which Ms Blow, now I think of it, was
In addition to overtone there is also the way we see so widely, way beyond
any frame we might consider; and there is the memory of what we have seen
I like seeing with intent
it's not only very good on these matters
it also makes it sound like a crime, which many might endorse!
L
On Thu, May 24, 2012 16:59, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> That's interesting Lawrence, because I often try to catch a light that
> attracks me at that moment. But I never do, as such. I think we actually
> see *with intent* in a way no machine can (yet anyway). So there's some
> overtone of the seen that shifts & changes minutely as we look that a
> shot doesnt get. Do the photo is often really beautiful but still isnt
> quite what i 'saw'...? At which point, those inadequate words come into
> their (lesser) own...
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> Doug
> On 2012-05-24, at 4:26 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> Sandra Blow used to be able to get that light in her paintings. Not
>> many others. I take lots of photos but I use them to make other images.
>> The
>> camera, certainly not my camera, or not with me holding it, won't get
>> that -- whatever it is... you can get effects of it, but the whole, the
>> bright clarity, that eludes me.
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Lawrence Upton
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Goldsmiths, University of London
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