Paul Vanderbilt & Alec Soth’s current Madison exhibits and accompanying text/audio and Frank Gohlke’s Thoughts On Landscape have me thinking about visual rhythms, algorithms and typologies.
Photos individual, paired, in series syncopate with what- anticipations, expectations, apprehensions?– in the viewer. And the resulting resonance renders them meaningful. Or.
The thing in itself, the subject without the photo, the photo without the viewer, retains meaning in situ independent of the intervening eyes. Is it when the human attention drawn to the object of the len’s affection focusses deeply in that moment, that the recognition of coincident, adjacent, harmonic- or dissonant– significance in the image(s) occurs? & Association liberates vision from its expectations.
And thinking too much impedes seeing:) A series of random views that made me stop and shoot during recent travels:
Umbrellas at Willow Vineyard, Cape May
Levitation. Seaport promenade, Manhattan (thanks to Liz S. for the tipoff!)
Wisconsin River Autumn, early morning
Driftless World 