It has always seemed to me that a photograph (and perception) is never just of a something. It is of 'a something' as a certain type of thing. Cooper’s photographs remind me of this insight. Perception takes whatever it perceives as a certain type of thing, an intuition for want of a better term. From intuitions arise … Continue reading Thomas Joshua Cooper – our relationship to things
Tag: landscape photography
Mention 'landscape photography' these days and many would immediately think of that style of photography that looks to the 'beautiful' or to the 'sublime' or to the 'picturesque' in our countryside. Perhaps we have Edmund Burke's 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' to blame for that ... … Continue reading Working the Landscape