Not much time for procrastinating on the internet what with a Masters project due and with bubs to balance too. But here is a quick post with a couple of my latest images
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just a thought...
at the top of your page you use the subtext Jodi Keet Art Photography.
i'm just wondering why you need to define your photography specifically that way?
it suggests that other photography isn't art and that photography in an artistic sense is confined to a style that you define?
i would have thought you only need the word Photography there as it is a very wide artistic medium.
I define art as something that has been created by a person that has a message of some sort. It attempts to work through something, answer something or it questions something.
Because of this definition, I firmly believe that not all photography is art, just as not all painting (etc) is art. However, as with all things in life, this is just an opinion.
I aim for my work to discuss my own personal questions and to examine issues pertaining to the wider human race. That is my art, and photography is the medium I use to explore it.
This by no means attempts to suggest that any other way of making photography (or any other medium) is not art. This is just how I choose to deal with it.
It is an interesting question: What is art? It is a question that has been (and will continue to be) asked throughout the ages. Just like art itself, it is a very fragile question and can be looked at from many different angles.
I welcome any further discussion about this notion.
In his foreword to All Dogs Shot: The Photography of Roger Donaldson Hamish Keith says: “We live in a cloud of pragmatic photographic images. The practical uses of the medium tend to limit our view of its possibilities – if our experience of painting was mediated by signwriting, we might see it as predominantly only for the making of visual messages. Clear way the noisy swarm of our daily encounters with photographs and photography becomes art again.”
It is a point well made.
And, by branding herself with the words art photography Jodi isn't laying claim to any definitive form than a baker calling their product, for example, Vienna loaf - there is not a one and only Vienna loaf, just as there is no one and only art photographer.
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just a thought...
at the top of your page you use the subtext Jodi Keet Art Photography.
i'm just wondering why you need to define your photography specifically that way?
it suggests that other photography isn't art and that photography in an artistic sense is confined to a style that you define?
i would have thought you only need the word Photography there as it is a very wide artistic medium.
just a thought :)
I define art as something that has been created by a person that has a message of some sort. It attempts to work through something, answer something or it questions something.
Because of this definition, I firmly believe that not all photography is art, just as not all painting (etc) is art. However, as with all things in life, this is just an opinion.
I aim for my work to discuss my own personal questions and to examine issues pertaining to the wider human race. That is my art, and photography is the medium I use to explore it.
This by no means attempts to suggest that any other way of making photography (or any other medium) is not art. This is just how I choose to deal with it.
It is an interesting question: What is art? It is a question that has been (and will continue to be) asked throughout the ages. Just like art itself, it is a very fragile question and can be looked at from many different angles.
I welcome any further discussion about this notion.
In his foreword to All Dogs Shot: The Photography of Roger Donaldson Hamish Keith says: “We live in a cloud of pragmatic photographic images. The practical uses of the medium tend to limit our view of its possibilities – if our experience of painting was mediated by signwriting, we might see it as predominantly only for the making of visual messages. Clear way the noisy swarm of our daily encounters with photographs and photography becomes art again.”
It is a point well made.
And, by branding herself with the words art photography Jodi isn't laying claim to any definitive form than a baker calling their product, for example, Vienna loaf - there is not a one and only Vienna loaf, just as there is no one and only art photographer.
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