Happy Accidents Part 2
When I was fooling around with my first digital camera several years ago, I tried auto focusing on my hand, then snapped the picture. The photo somehow refused to go away, and kept popping up in my files. Unlike others in the book I was preparing in 2009, it would not fit in that sequence, but like an unruly child still demanded attention, until I hit on using as a soft pattern across both “end papers” – the sheets just inside the hard covers. What could be more implicit in ones destiny?
“The Palm of My Hand,” photograph © William Carter 2001-2010, as used in Causes and Spirits, 2011
Click here to see other examples of photographs in Causes and Spirits.
This photography is so characteristic of your work. It capture the essence of an impression and expresses it in a way that is very personal to the person that watches it. When I look at this image, I first see interesting contrasts, lines, connections. It is a question. I have no idea that it is the palm of a hand. A very crisp and zen form of art that deeply respects humans. Great abstract expression of things that are under our eyes all day long … and that we hardly see anymore.
Dominique Trempont
January 11, 2012 at 9:40 pm
I really like this. And I know what you mean about a photo that just keeps demanding attention.
Love it when that happens.
KatiesCameraBlog
January 6, 2012 at 10:12 pm