These are all great, as per usual. I think the last one is my favorite, largely because all of the objects that would normally be the focus of a photograph are going out of the frame.
I also think about what you are discussing here a LOT, especially in the context of the cemetery project, as part of the stated point of the thing IS the interest of documentation. I just look at it this way; I am the photographer, so I'm going to document the things I find interesting about the places in the state in which they exist when we visit them (even if it has very little to do with the history of the thing, it's still in the wider context a statement on my experiences/associations with the areas).
That makes sense given the sites involved...they aren't very widely photographed, right? Most of the places I go, I find out about from other photographers who have already been to them. It would be different if no real documentation of these places exited.
Sorry, I am lame; by 'document' I meant more... um... 'photograph' or 'record things as I see them, which is not usually a straight documentation as much as it is a recording of the interactions between objects and/or light or recording snippets of information that I find amusing or interesting'.
I guess I tend to use the word 'photograph' and 'document' interchangeably because I came to this medium from an illustration/painting background, and I personally feel that with those mediums I had to 'create' whereas with photography I tend more toward 'documenting' the world as I see it/wish it were.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that I understood what you were saying, and tend to agree with you. If you really feel that these places are already widely photographed, then when adding your own images to the catalog of existing images, shooting them from your own unique perspective will make them far more interesting.
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I also think about what you are discussing here a LOT, especially in the context of the cemetery project, as part of the stated point of the thing IS the interest of documentation. I just look at it this way; I am the photographer, so I'm going to document the things I find interesting about the places in the state in which they exist when we visit them (even if it has very little to do with the history of the thing, it's still in the wider context a statement on my experiences/associations with the areas).
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I guess I tend to use the word 'photograph' and 'document' interchangeably because I came to this medium from an illustration/painting background, and I personally feel that with those mediums I had to 'create' whereas with photography I tend more toward 'documenting' the world as I see it/wish it were.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that I understood what you were saying, and tend to agree with you. If you really feel that these places are already widely photographed, then when adding your own images to the catalog of existing images, shooting them from your own unique perspective will make them far more interesting.
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