PHOTOGRAPHY: Gregory Crewdson 

Legendary photography Gregory Crewdson works within a photographic tradition that combines the documentary style of William Eggleston and Walker Evans with the dream-like vision of filmmakers such as Stephen Spielberg and David Lynch.

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The Concept of Non-Photography:

Non-photography, theorized by François Laruelle, is about devorcing all context from a photgraph. There is no concept of a subject, photographer, composition, pretext, or context. It exsists in a void as a sort of non-thing, as if there was no sentient being able to percive and analize it. It exsist’s merely as an aeasthetic, but not even really as an aesthetic because that is a philosophy in itself.

He states that the photograph is not a picture of reality or even a copy or abstraction. It is a fiction that is “wholly real but in its own mode”- the fictional realm. The photograph is unique unto itself, an unlimited opening into the world occasioned by lights and shadows in time, but is in no way constrained by either the experiential universe or the theoretical and art historical preconditions set up for it.”

Adam Ferriss 

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Adam Ferriss is a photographer and digital media artist based in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to his artistic practice, Adam runs the photography labs at Otis College of Art and Design. His most recent projects involve creating tri-chromatic color separation photographs and algorithmically restructuring pixel array data.

Cyberpunk Potography by ANDEWNEF

I’ve always been inspired by photographers like Liam Wong, Noealz, and Steve Roe who became famous for doing cyberpunk and street photography in Japan and South Korea.   I wanted to see if I could capture Taiwan in the same way…

However unlike them I’ve never been able to gain much of a following for my work —let alone sell any prints or make money.  I don’t know if it’s because my work just simply isn’t that good, or I haven’t made the right connections with the right people… or a bit of both.

I know I have a terrible attitude and am horrible at making/maintaining friendships.  In fact many people have accused me of being either a sociopath or on the spectrum.  Maybe I’m both?  I don’t know…

But the way I see it is that I’d just rather not deal with people.  Why should the beauty and value of my work have to be tied to and artificially inflated by whatever relationship or connection I’ve made?  Why do I have to play the stupid game of others when all I want to do is shoot, edit, repeat?

In response people often tell me to, “Just shoot for fun, or quit crying and figure out a way to turn your photograpahy into a successful business.”

Perhaps they’re right.  Or perhaps not.  Maybe if I just fully embrace who I am instead of trying to compromise to meet the expectations of society then things will work out.

Or maybe I’ll be forced to face the harsh reality that my failure to conform, adapt, and improve will result in me being a complete failure who must now fade into the great abyss and join the mass graveyard of failed artists no one ever heard of.

I guess the results of this ad will be a good indicator of what’s to come…

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Originally posted by itconsumesyou