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02/09/2012 03:26:09 AM · #1 |
This is just a supplement to this thread which is being curated by  tanguera. I don't want to appear to hijack Johanna's thread, and in any case this fellow deserves his own spotlight.
He's Warren Harold and visiting his blog will show you how wonderful, joyful and artful the simplest photography can be. Snapshots as art, some would say, though let's leave the semantics of terminology aside.
Warren has all sorts of weird old cameras, and an unlimited imagination. He doesn't do anything complicated, but he does make the most beautiful, witty, charming, loving, durable pictures and he is in my view a brilliant photographer. A fine art photographer. I mean Fine Art.
If you go there (to the link above), I urge you to not make it a quick look. There is magic here, but it comes upon you from the inside out, and not from the outside in, so do not go looking for instant "Wow!"
Instead you have to steep yourself in Warren's world in order for the magic to happen. When it does, you may find that you have fundamentally changed your view of what great photography really is. |
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02/09/2012 03:57:59 AM · #2 |
Awesome and dedicated work.
If you take one of his images and enter it into a challenge here at DPC, in all likelihood it will get an average if not below average score, on the basis of wow factor and PP (generalisation). There will be a few blue glove and fish awards and decent comments no doubt.
However, view those images together, as on his site, and collectively they start forming a style, a genre, a feeling.
It is only at this point that I believe such bare work can then be appreciated, in context. |
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02/09/2012 04:07:44 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by HarveyG:
If you take one of his images and enter it into a challenge here at DPC, in all likelihood it will get an average if not below average score, on the basis of wow factor and PP (generalisation). |
One mass's mediocrity is another posthumous blue. |
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02/09/2012 07:48:57 AM · #4 |
| damn, i thought this thread was going to be about me... |
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02/09/2012 01:44:56 PM · #5 |
| Thank you Paul. How did you come across his work? |
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02/09/2012 02:09:54 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by bspurgeon:
Thank you Paul. How did you come across his work? |
I'm afraid I don't remember, Ben. It was several years ago I know that. We exchanged the occasional comment and email back then, and now I visit his blog anytime I need to remember what cameras are for.
I think Warren Harold is a genuinely great photographer. He'd probably be horrified at that. |
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02/09/2012 02:28:57 PM · #7 |
| Not to highjack this thread either, but people might also want to refer to this long-standing thread, in which there are hundreds of posts by people suggesting other photographers they think are worth checking out: The Photographer |
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02/09/2012 03:02:24 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Not to highjack this thread either, but people might also want to refer to this long-standing thread, in which there are hundreds of posts by people suggesting other photographers they think are worth checking out: The Photographer |
Yes, hundreds of well known photographers there. I was thinking more of the opposite though: just one, and unknown. |
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02/09/2012 03:43:55 PM · #9 |
great find Paul, thoroughly enjoyed that small part which I saw.... but you know, the title of your thread reminded me of the question Stephen Colbert often poses to his (especially, liberal) guests, "George Bush - a great president, or the greatest president?" :). I understand it was part tongue-in-the-cheek, part polemic zeal on your part, but still... a great photographer - no doubt, The Greatest - who is to decide, it's a tall order.
Message edited by author 2012-02-09 15:46:46. |
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02/09/2012 03:54:24 PM · #10 |
| I actually was wowed, right away. But I'm weird. |
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02/09/2012 04:28:50 PM · #11 |
| Wonderful stuff - a distillation of reality. But it is still thoughtful and composed, and requires great observations skills to reduce a moment to a few broad strokes. Thank you for sharing. |
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02/09/2012 04:44:04 PM · #12 |
I remember you sharing his website a while back, and I do enjoy his work. But I have to say the whole "snapshot as art" thing is starting to bore me, just a little...maybe this is because it is the thing in so many MFA programs, in the modern Fine Art photography scene, etc.
And I often ask myself this...is it the process that makes it more artful? He uses film cameras, that's great, but would he still be great if he used just digital? I enjoy film cams myself, that's what I started on...but back then it was nothing special. |
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02/09/2012 07:46:13 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by RKT:
He uses film cameras, that's great, but would he still be great if he used just digital? |
Yes. |
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02/10/2012 11:24:25 PM · #14 |
| Very inspiring. Time to do more with my Holga. |
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