joshuawmurray

joshuawmurray, 4 months ago

No, it’s Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

joshuawmurray, 4 months ago

Streets ahead

joshuawmurray, 4 months ago

Thanks for the comment. I also like finding those everyday moments.I enjoy discovering easily ignored details of everyday life. I’ve lived in this space for awhile and don’t remember noticing this pattern on the wall.

joshuawmurray, 6 months ago

Thanks for the comment! My only intent with Astronomatopoeia is that it’s a series of scenes or objects, taken with black and white phone apps, that I find interesting when I’m out of the house. The photos are unplanned, spontaneous, and at the will of limited app functions.

I rarely adjust these photos in post as the real challenge to myself is to take and post a picture a day (or close to that). I tend to compose asymmetrical shots, binary objects, or lone hero subjects. I think Astronomatopoeia falls somewhere between the spontaneous action of street photography and methodical composure of fine art.

So, yes, ‘I never meant to take this shot’ but I like it when I take it like this.

joshuawmurray, 6 months ago

I’d love to find a small digital rangefinder with a larger lens to carry everywhere with me. 25 years ago I always carried Grandpa’s Yashica Lynx 14e and 4 rolls of Tri-X with me “just in case”. It was fun.

I like how the approach to black and white photography is different from color. For B&W I concentrate on contrast and form as well as the subject but with color my focus is on saturation and the ‘shape’ of color. I don’t think information is thrown away. I think it’s about working with the strengths and parameters of the medium.

Or sometimes it’s just play. Astronomatopoeia is play.

joshuawmurray, 6 months ago

Ahhh yes! I know exactly what you mean. You can see “artistic” talent right away. I think it comes from a lack of art education or inexperience or you’ve encountered a marketing rep. But then again, we’ve all put out art because that’s what we thought art is supposed to be.

Here’s a question I ask my artist friends from time to time: can you instinctively see or notice high art / low art, more talent / less talent regardless of finished work? And, considering your answer, do you think there’s a universal aesthetic in which everyone can agree that there is definitely good art and bad art?

joshuawmurray, 6 months ago

You rock