fate_faith_change_chains Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 This (maybe strange) thought just crossed my mind. I don't know why but I just made a poem (damn that sounds cheap). Just three lines, and know I feel that I have to make a photograph of it, about what it means or what I think it means. At the surface this process seems logical, but it also feels impossible : to make the words and the photograph as an identical twin to each other, with only difference being that they both where created in two different medium's. I mean : to make the photograph's feel as valid as the feeling when the words first popped up and on to the paper.Making a photograph and then imagine some words or poem or whatever by it feels more natural than making a poem and imagine a photograph by it. Or isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 I've tried both. If you have a love of photography and enjoy poetry and have a bit of a creative instinct, it really doesn't matter which side you approach it from, as long as either the picture or the poem appeals to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakaway Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 I feel that in exploring both mediums, you would be able to face your feelings truely. You would more clearly understand what it is that you are feeling when you attempt to translate from one medium to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_lu Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 i've put my writing and photogrpahs together, but they complement more than mirror. they can be twins in feeling, but that's a personal and creative thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d. light Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 If the inspiration is a picture, real or imagined, it is easier to write a poem about it than to create a picture around a poem. That is, for my feeling, because language offers far more flexibility than the tools of visualisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d. light Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 ....than the tools of imaging. (not visualisation) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_hughes4 Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 I did this also, but no one will let me post the image, not sure why. the poem starts with,"there once was a man from Kentucky.....) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 to make the words and the photograph The photograph is the poem. The words are just an add on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug_foster Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Mr. Hughes has added a note of hilarity. Reminds me of all the off color limericks I used to hear. Don't hear many anymore. I know this is a diversion from the topic posted but a little levity is sometimes needed in this sometimes overly serious forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 little levity is sometimes needed in this sometimes overly serious forum. There's a thought. Most conversations are about some old painter having a influence on Henri or someone.. Yes, we all love Henri bucket loads...can we move on. At least Van Cough cut his ear off, and painted in chromes. Of course he was condemned for not being proper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Rowlett Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 I think it might be fun to try Japanese Haiku. Seems like it might be fairly easy to turn the poems into photographs by using the visual things. <a href="http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#whatishaiku">http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#whatishaiku</a> Backups? We don’t need no stinking ba #.’ _ , J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_buckner Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Ken, it's "Nantucket." :-) Photography and poetry set out to accomplish the same thing, but their means are so different that I don't think you could create a photograph that expresses what a poem does. It's like expecting the movie of a book to be like the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_flynn Posted December 19, 2004 Share Posted December 19, 2004 People knew how to see long before they invented language. So I think it's natural that it would be easier to draw words out of an image, rather than an image out of words. Maybe you can approach it like a filmmaker. Your poem is the script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim kerr Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I can very well agree with the statement of Peter A, and some are even as great as a Psalm. The one I'm thinking of is Michael Ging's Photograph of the little lady walking toward the sunset in Rome that he posted on here a few months ago...Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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