http://www.whatandysaw.com/blog/2007/04/05/re-enchantment/ journals of a photographic artist Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:08:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.whatandysaw.com/blog/2007/04/05/re-enchantment/comment-page-1/#comment-9444 Blogroll Replacement « Musings on Photography Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:14:01 +0000 http://www.whatandysaw.com/blog/2007/04/05/re-enchantment/#comment-9444 [...] At Andy Chen’s What Andy Saw, browsing back through time landed me on a wonderful post on ‘re-enchantment’. Posted in interesting blogs | [...] [...] At Andy Chen’s What Andy Saw, browsing back through time landed me on a wonderful post on ‘re-enchantment’. Posted in interesting blogs | [...]

]]> http://www.whatandysaw.com/blog/2007/04/05/re-enchantment/comment-page-1/#comment-2501 Andy Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:23:35 +0000 http://www.whatandysaw.com/blog/2007/04/05/re-enchantment/#comment-2501 David, thanks for the response. I heard David speak this past weekend, and several of his thoughts influenced this post. David, thanks for the response. I heard David speak this past weekend, and several of his thoughts influenced this post.

]]> http://www.whatandysaw.com/blog/2007/04/05/re-enchantment/comment-page-1/#comment-2500 David Dark Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:19:58 +0000 http://www.whatandysaw.com/blog/2007/04/05/re-enchantment/#comment-2500 Hi Andy, sounds good to me. i'd just throw in that art (as i understand it) doesn't merely represent, reproduce, or use what we see; it makes us see. it bear witness. it shows...testifies...renders. and the value, beauty, chant, magic, dignity is there whether we see it there or not. to redeem (revalue) is to look again. to value again. better this time. revaluing what was devalued. and art (as you put it) points back. summoning us to pay better attention. again and again. always as if for the first time. always (we might say) like children who've never seen this day before. we haven't. SO like the photography. best, jdd Hi Andy,
sounds good to me.
i’d just throw in that art (as i understand it) doesn’t merely represent, reproduce, or use what we see; it makes us see. it bear witness. it shows…testifies…renders. and the value, beauty, chant, magic, dignity is there whether we see it there or not. to redeem (revalue) is to look again. to value again. better this time. revaluing what was devalued. and art (as you put it) points back. summoning us to pay better attention. again and again. always as if for the first time. always (we might say) like children who’ve never seen this day before. we haven’t.
SO like the photography.
best,
jdd

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