{"id":4949,"date":"2014-01-16T23:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2014-01-16T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T22:07:13","slug":"on_photography_beauty_utility_and_scarves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/on_photography_beauty_utility_and_scarves\/","title":{"rendered":"On photography, beauty, utility and scarves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my challenges for the macro course is to find subjects that are somehow meaningful to me. It&#8217;s a self-imposed challenge, not part of the course in any way. It&#8217;s simply that I find it difficult to really be interested in subjects that are only pretty. I can look at a sunset and find it beautiful, but I don&#8217;t feel any need to photograph it. I am much more interested in documenting our everyday.<\/p>\n<p>My aim with photography is to document rather than to make art. Ten years from now I&#8217;d love to look at a photo and remember &#8211; &#8220;Oh yes, that&#8217;s exactly the face Ingrid used to have while reading! There&#8217;s Adrian with that favourite hat of his!&#8221; Much better than &#8220;Oh yes, look at how beautiful this is!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Likewise I almost never buy or make things that are only beautiful but not useful.<\/p>\n<p>I like that quote of William Morris:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHave nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But to me the ideal is to achieve both. Beauty should be there to make a useful thing worth loving.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the macro course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First out were toys. Today, a selection of scarves &#8211; as a reminder of the wintery weather we&#8217;ve been having recently, and also as a sampling of our different tastes. Ingrid is very warm-blooded and almost never wears a scarf, so for her I photographed her favourite woolly hat instead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Scarf_Eric.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Scarf_Adrian.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Scarf_mine.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Hat_Ingrid.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my challenges for the macro course is to find subjects that are somehow meaningful to me. It&#8217;s a self-imposed challenge, not part of the course in any way. It&#8217;s simply that I find it difficult to really be interested in subjects that are only pretty. I can look at a sunset and find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}