These are my two favorite images by Carl Weese in his series of photographs of drive-in theaters.  I was reading a New York Times blurb that went along with a slideshow of his images and a quote by Carl really stood out to me.

“I’m not going to get a turned head to think that I made the most wonderful photograph in the world,” Mr. Weese said. “It had to be resonance with the subject matter.”

I am unsure about this statement.  If you are hauling around an 8 x 10 camera aren’t you trying to create a wonderful, stunning photograph.  I believe a few of these images are stunning but then others fall flat.  It is a mistake to consider this a purely documentary endeavor when you are clearly interested in aesthetics.

p.s.  If you go to his website his images have art sauce borders (art sauce = decorative crap that is superfluous to a good photograph) but the NYT slides have cropped them out.

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