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The Photographs Not Taken
Will Steacy
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PROJECT STATUS: This project is underway, but seeking a publicist, designer, and bookstore sponsor. Using the links at left, apply to join the team and help make this book happen.The Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about the times they didn't use their camera. This collection is a series of photographs not taken with a camera, but, instead, lived and remembered. Here the basic set of rules that apply to making a photograph are put into reverse; instead of looking out into the world through a camera lens, this series of essays looks directly into the photographer’s eye and mind and focuses on where the photographs come from. The photograph is stripped down to its barest most simple and primitive form: the idea, instinct, reaction, the before, while simultaneously opening the door for reflection, meaning, content and the after. I have asked each photographer to abandon the familiar tools "needed" to make a photograph: camera, lens, film etc, and now make a "photograph" with another set of tools: the memories, experiences and poetry of the world that didn’t go through the lens, the negative photographs, the anti-photographs, the photographs not taken with a camera but with the heart and mind. Read excerpts at www.thephotographsnottaken.com. |
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