Showing posts with label James Danziger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Danziger. Show all posts

February 26, 2011

James Danziger on what we get from artists

James Danziger's blog The Year in Pictures is always full of all kinds of good stuff. Here is a snippet from his latest post:
And as I thought about this, I realized that one of the things artists give us is a way of defining and ordering what we see. A sea horizon can be a Meyerowitz or a Sugimoto. A random gesture in a park can be a Winogrand. A tackily colored interior can be an Eggleston. And rather than taking away from the pleasure of seeing these things, for those of us who are not artists I think it actually adds pleasure. Recognizing the association is in itself a creative gesture. Thus the realization that the scene outside my window (below) was like a Leong was both a gift from the artist and a gift from and to myself.
Photo by James Danziger, 2011.