I was in Seattle last week and spent an afternoon in the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). This was the first time I’d visited an art museum in at least a decade. Let me be upfront: the art world often confuses and intimidates me. While I can ruminate forever on definitions of creativity, the word “art” isContinue reading “Seattle Art Museum Musings”
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Edges
In his book Making it New, Henry Geldzahler (a big deal), echoing John Szarkowski (another big deal), states that, “The edge is the controlling aesthetic factor [in photography].” Here are three pictures of the same thing but with different edges. This first picture most represents what I wanted to take a picture of in thatContinue reading “Edges”