{"id":3239,"date":"2010-08-08T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T21:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2010-08-09T12:39:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:39:02","slug":"draw-still-life-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"Draw (still) life in \u2014 to truly see it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dorothea Lange said, “The camera is an instrument which teaches people how to see without a camera.” Emile Zola offered, “In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”\u00a0I believe that drawing also teaches people how to see [without a camera]. If you truly want to “see deeply” into the wold around you \u2014 do both \u2014 draw and photograph your life. Each process will provide a completely different “seeing” lesson. And let us not forget writing. “When you are describing,\u00a0A shape, or sound, or tint;\u00a0Don’t state the matter plainly,\u00a0But put it in a hint;\u00a0And learn to look at all things,\u00a0With a sort of mental squint.” said\u00a0Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). And in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<\/em> Annie Dillard offers, “Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won’t see it. It is, as Ruskin says, ‘not merely unnoticed, but in the full, clear sense of the word, unseen.'”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yet somethings in life move far too fast to draw or write in the moments of experience. Photography serves our drawing and writing; just as drawing and writing serves our photography. As Henri Cartier-Bresson said, late in life, after putting his camera down, “All I care about these days is painting\u2014photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.” Draw, paint, photograph, write, sculpt, make music \u2014 in order to draw life more deeply into our consciousness \u2014 and dig more deeply into life.<\/p>\n

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Leica R8\/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dorothea Lange said, “The camera is an instrument which teaches people how to see without a camera.” Emile Zola offered, “In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”\u00a0I believe that drawing also teaches people how to see [without a camera]. If you truly want to “see deeply” into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,49,54,19,57,33,17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-drawing","category-fawna","category-hand-made","category-music","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}