howcouldiknow » New York Times http://www.howcouldiknow.com/blog (perpetuallyunderconstruction) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:19:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Carl Weese http://www.howcouldiknow.com/blog/2010/01/16/270/ http://www.howcouldiknow.com/blog/2010/01/16/270/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:22:21 +0000 Jessica Pierotti http://www.howcouldiknow.com/blog/?p=270 Skyvue Drive-in
The Park Drive-in

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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  The article was talking about street artists creating complex installation projects, that take time to execute in public.  They referenced the artist Revs, who creates 3-dimensional installations of his tag as well as some very impressive graffiti.  

I am intrigued by this world of urban guerilla art.  To make something and unleash it to the world to be loved, hated or destroyed. It feels very real and special.  
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