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William
Lamson
I think about photography as an extension of my life, as a way of
communicating the experience of where I go and the people and things
that I see. Within this experience, I am most interested in those
subjects about which I know the least. My working process involves
becoming a stranger and traveling to places outside the security and
comfort of familiarity. I want my photographs to communicate the experience
of first sight, and the sense of wonder and awe that is unique to
our first visual experience with a person, place, or thing.
Essential to this encounter is the gap between what we can see in
a photograph and what we know about it. The result in many of my pictures
is a definitive unknowable: a subject that is unambiguous and understandable
but the details and context of which remain a mystery to the viewer,
and to some extent, even to me. What interests me about photography
is the possibility of making pictures that both represent actual events
from my experience but also contain their own fictional history.
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Irving
Pointing to God
Alabama
2003
20"
x 36"
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