Early morning calm. New Brighton. Canterbury. New Zealand. Photograph by Stephanie Beth. 2022
Niagara Falls. Photograph by Stephanie. 1972
Ideas were gelling for me.
It came to me , once I travelled overseas, that Art shown internationally or locally told, as well as contemporary literature embed interesting ideas about the human condition.
Re; the Arts, questions may always be asked about, genre, form and style.
Contemporary photographs, of any time, give their resonance within the glance of relationship or ambiguity. The early photographer looked for punctum. *Version of this type of image are still historically upheld. Some other versions of image making were restarted to be a trend.
There is an alternative to a punctum image gathering.
I began to consider the alternative of realist images to Performance images.
This tome has become one of respect for intellectual precedents and for several artists that I met or who I had acquaintance with that set me to a later path about which to write.
* Punctum. a word coined for use by (Roland Barthes, a writer on photography)