We Wish We Knew Where We Were Going
by Gus Aronson
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About the Book
The philosopher Clive Bell, in his 1914 book simply titled “Art,” coined the term Significant Form, which he defines as the aspect that all art shares that expresses emotional content. The music critic Eduard Hanslick, talks about how the artist listens to the forms inherent to the medium in which they work to communicate an idea. The artist doesn’t infuse their own emotional content into a work, but rather listens to how a form, a color, a sounds, a beam of light speaks to them. It is the role of the artist to find, to collect, and to arrange forms that communicate ideas, much like how a writer uses words that are already infused with meaning, rather than creating their own new words that need to be deciphered.
“We Wish We Knew Where We Were Going” is a project about listening, about looking, and about asking questions to the world through images to see what the world has to say in return. Through this process, I’ve changed my notion, and hope to change others about how photography can not only reflect on the past, illuminating and understanding the moment in time it discusses and our past selves, but how it can be a roadmap for the future, a tool for healing, for therapy, for hope, and a tool to look outward, to allow foolishness and freeplay to let us try and see the world unaffected.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
- Additional Categories Fine Art Photography
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Project Option: 8×10 in, 20×25 cm
# of Pages: 40 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9780464663980
- Publish Date: Dec 02, 2019
- Language English
- Keywords Bard College, New York, Philosophy, Spring
About the Creator
Gus Aronson is a double major in Film and Photography at Bard College, and is based between the Bronx and Tivoli, New York. Gus’ photographic projects are primarily concerned with the nature of photography itself, and more specifically his own relationship to the camera as a therapeutic tool. He is concerned with how the camera reshapes conceptions of memory, and uses photography as way of rejecting the notion that photograph is purely a document of a time past, promoting rather how photographs can function as tarot cards, documents of the present and roadmaps for the future. Gus has contributed to the Washington Post and Serious Eats Magazine, and his work has been featured by Ain't Bad Magazine. In his film work, throughout his time at Bard, Gus has shot a number of narrative films for other students, as well as a number of his own narrative and experimental projects. Outside of Bard, Gus works closely with filmmakers Ralph Arlyck and Melody London.