#documentarystudies

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OBSERVATIONAL DRAWINGS:

documentary studies

A series of documentary drawing studies exploring light, volume and structure, from fruit clusters and ornamental reliefs to geometric solids, human anatomy, vessels and bottles.

[rudeflowersdonotgrowbeautiful]

I never posted this but I just thought about it and remembered how cool it is.

[iloveyoumorethanallthephotos]

I love you more than all the photos I take.  I sometimes say that to my kids at night. It started after a conversation where I was accused of loving my camera more than them. I tried to dig myself out of it by talking about loving the photos much more than the camera and that the photos were of our family. And then I was accused of loving the photos more than our family.  I do not, but sometimes it seems like I do because of the sheer amount I take. But I am not alone. Witness the “all the time cameras” clicking away. Where will all these photos go? They rarely take physical form anymore. Our photos glow on a phone or some computer screen often seen by people we don't even know.  They take up space inside a hard drive or a digital cloud. 

While I was conducting qualitative research interviews with people related to vernacular photography and receiving voicemails for my lostandfoundphotos.org project, I started wanting to talk to people about other aspects of photography. I began collecting interviews at International Visual Sociology Conference.  I then attended The Society of Photographic Education (Denver and Philadelphia) and PhotoExpo in New York City.  I interviewed photographers connected with En Foco. I talked to MFA graduate students. I spoke to teachers.  I met all kinds of interesting people. 

I posted my interviews on a podcast / blog I titled Photosdie.com: Photos die, unless we talk about them.  While slowly bringing these interviews over to Tumblr and uploading to Soundcloud, I had the idea of gathering the audio I’ve collected related to personal photography.  So here it is.  I’ve also included voicemails from lostandfoundphotos.org I played at and audio conference put on by Third Coast International Audio Festival at The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

*Two interviews below were conducted by two students from an Autobiographical Media class I teach (personal photography, home movies, 1st person documentaries, etc.)

[rudeflowersdonotgrowbeautiful]

This is brilliantly powerful; a perfect example of experimental documentary.

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Brilliantly put together.

[rudeflowersdonotgrowbeautiful]

This is amazingly well put together

A little confusing at first, but definitely worth it

[rudeflowersdonotgrowbeautiful]

The piece on the Sunshine Hotel is my favorite.

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This website is also great