CURATION OF EXPERIENCES
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art is an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes and the everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is “artistic” because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist’s conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.
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RUDOLF ARNHEIM,
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Photography, like writing, is about storytelling. Pens and cameras are merely the ...
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