“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.” WorldMindFormArtistOrderBeautyPrinciplesTakenParticularMaterialsPureShadowIdealsTraditionAbsolutesHarmonyMereInspiredBoundsCosmosIdealismDefectsRepresentingPlatonic Author:John Walford
“I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.” ThinkingHumansCertainLeftRoomsTakenWallShadowEmptyMarkPhotographDisappearAbsenceEtcEmpty Rooms Author:Mona Kuhn