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Tag: Meigakure

Pathetic Fallacy

Posted on October 15, 2019October 16, 2022 by David Barker

One could easily accuse the outlying fog of spying on my inner state, or worse, of manufacturing it by drifting into my ears and eyes and nostrils and gaping mouth, and supplanting my accustomed mental chaos with a vague stillness.

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Synecdoche

Posted on February 26, 2019October 16, 2022 by David Barker

Synecdoche is a simplicity that doesn’t lie.

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Photographs Like Memories

Posted on October 12, 2018October 16, 2022 by David Barker

I wish photographs were like memories. They would start out as well-focused images with crisp edges and clearly defined details. But with the passage of time, the images would lose their clarity, edges would soften …

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Pointlessly Abstract

Posted on April 8, 2015October 16, 2022 by David Barker

Is abstract photography pointless? If so, does that matter? Personally, I feel some ambivalence around the production of abstract photographs. Images that we describe as abstract can be pleasing to the eye.

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Meigakure

Posted on July 28, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

Meigakure is a Zen principle of aesthetics used especially in Japanese gardening but no less valid in photography: it is the representation of a part to suggest the whole. It is analogous to the Classical Greek rhetorical principle of synecdoche.

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