About this trail:
Shannon Doubleday's photography can be a bit esoteric, and her site isn't the easiest to navigate despite its boldness.
I feel her work is very worthwhile. She's one of the few people I know trying to do something genuinely "new," and I've learned a lot by keeping up with her.
I feel her work is very worthwhile. She's one of the few people I know trying to do something genuinely "new," and I've learned a lot by keeping up with her.
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Shannon's pictures are principally of objects. Her major theme, I think, is how they decay. One has to wonder how disorder yields yet another order, how the natural reasserts itself despite all our attempts to mimic it.
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The first time I saw this, I thought of it as a rather curious beach. It took me a second to realize what it was. Landscapes find their way into strange places, no?
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Some may say the horizon line isn't perfect, but I don't care - what makes this photo work is the narrative. We're at an angle almost trying to peek up a staircase, separated from the interior by an opening. Are we going in or taking a last look back?
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Angles matter. Would you have ever used the phrase "descending into light" before this?
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When people show up in Shannon's photography, they do so as objects, but are far from dehumanized. Their animation is evident, as they are a playful comment on our seeing landscapes and other sorts of order throughout her work. We can mimic nature too, nyah nyah.
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So where does looking at all this abstruse but engaging photography get you? I tried to answer that question in this post.
