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Interview with Photographer: Taryn Simon

  • 07-12-2011 7:53pm
    #1
    Burnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭


    Matt Black's video interview with Taryn Simon: True Shot for nowness.com
    The Celebrated American Artist Reveals the Ideas Pushing Her to the Limits of Photography

    Talks a bit about her motivations and better know projects 5min49s


Comments

  • #2
    pullandbang
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭pullandbang


    Interesting to watch and I love her work.

    However, maybe it's just me, but I didn't "get" a lot of what she was saying. I'm a pretty down to earth guy with a basic grasp of the English language.
    I find it hard to understand a lot of what artists go on about sometimes. At one point she used the phrase "....shedding artistic embellishment...." in a sentence and I've no idea what she's on about. I replayed it a few times but still no joy.

    I don't want to sound like a complete muppet, but does everyone here understand these "artists statements"?


  • #3
    Burnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭Burnt


    I think the was a thread here not so long ago that delt with Art Bollocks.
    I thought most of the interview was pretty clear up until those last few
    statements, but some of that can come about through editing as well.

    There was a nice profile of an Irish tweed manufacture, Molloy & Sons,
    one page/day back too.


  • #4
    alb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    pullandbang wrote: »
    I find it hard to understand a lot of what artists go on about sometimes. At one point she used the phrase "....shedding artistic embellishment...."

    She actually said "shedding aesthetic embellishment" and explained directly afterwards that she meant paying less attention to lighting or colour or other aesthetic aspects of her photos.

    There are many times I don't understand artist's statements but I actually thought that she explained her motives and themes really clearly in that video.


  • #5
    Burnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭Burnt


    alb wrote: »
    that she meant paying less attention to lighting or colour or other aesthetic aspects of her photos.


    So when does it become just a "name" firing of a few snap shots?


  • #6
    sineadw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭sineadw


    Burnt wrote: »
    So when does it become just a "name" firing of a few snap shots?

    Huh? She talking about not looking at how pretty or good her images *look* - that really is only the surface level of an image, she pares them back. Most contemporary art photographers do this. There are concepts behind each set of images that go beyond what most of us here would utilise. They're about as far removed from 'snap shots' as you can get.

    (and what's so wrong with snap shots anyway?)


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