I think I preferred his nuclear weapons photographs the most out of all his different series, probably because of the importance of the subject in todays world. His photographs were nice, but not all of them were that visually appealing, but he did say that he just took straight photographs instead of trying to enhance the image with composition. I also just prefer black and white images to color.
I also appreciated the fact that he kept his politics out of his photography. When shooting things like nuclear weapons and subjects having to do with homeland security, it would be easy to let your opinion influence work, since you are shooting such politically charged issues. i hate it when artists get political, because it can alienate people people form your work and a lot of artists don't know what they're talking about and end up looking like idiots because of their work. So i was glad that he made the conscious decision to leave his political opinions out of his work.
No comments:
Post a Comment