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Dec. 7th, 2007 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogNPR is interviewing a photogropher named David Plowden. This little excerpt struck me (and I'm paraphrasing here):
Interviewer: "It occurs to me, as we talk about these trains, that these are not landscape pictures, or pictures of equipment that you've taken. These are portraits; it's almost as though these trains were alive to you.
David Plowden: "Yes, that's exactly it. They were alive to me."
I googled some of his work and and had that same sort of miraculous experience that I had when I started reading Catherynne Valente's Orphan's Tales, or when I first really listened to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon: it's the experience of suddenly finding exactly the kind of art that you've always wanted to create but haven't figured out how to.
And I love listening to him talk. He thinks in remarkably similar ways to me. I need to listen to this again this weekend.
Interviewer: "It occurs to me, as we talk about these trains, that these are not landscape pictures, or pictures of equipment that you've taken. These are portraits; it's almost as though these trains were alive to you.
David Plowden: "Yes, that's exactly it. They were alive to me."
I googled some of his work and and had that same sort of miraculous experience that I had when I started reading Catherynne Valente's Orphan's Tales, or when I first really listened to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon: it's the experience of suddenly finding exactly the kind of art that you've always wanted to create but haven't figured out how to.
And I love listening to him talk. He thinks in remarkably similar ways to me. I need to listen to this again this weekend.
