So the road from here is pretty fuzzy, but I've started walking in the hopes that it becomes clearer. Right now I'm interested in collections and the motivations behind creating collections; in nostalgia and the way we re-construct and edit our own histories; in patina and history; and in the division between reality and construction. What is actually real? Isn't the meaning of photographs a little like chinese whispers or like Stalin wiping out entire sections of histories to make it resemble what he wants it to instead of what it was. Is part of the joy of being human being able to edit our own view of our past and other people's roles within it. Selective memory, reconstituted memory, preservation of memory...
This is a really interesting article:
Photography changes how family history is constructedShared via AddThis
And parts of this are worth a thought to:
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