{"id":1076,"date":"2016-10-07T17:18:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2016-10-07T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T17:22:23","slug":"go-to-the-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Go To The Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/?attachment_id=1074\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1074\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1074\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage.jpg\" alt=\"Garage\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I took this photograph I was taking the piss. I am not much into documentary fine art photography and knowing that there was a tradition, in photographic art, of capturing the beauty of petrol stations I decided that I would join in with the fun. When I took it into college I was told that it was one of my best pieces to date. You just cannot win.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first individuals to produce work of this kind was Ed Ruscha most famously in his artists&#8217; book entitled &#8220;Twenty Six Gasoline Stations&#8221;. The story goes that he sent a copy of this work to the American Library of Congress which returned it as not of the required caliber. I could have been that librarian as the concept of an artists&#8217; book was new to me until I had to make one myself.<\/p>\n<p>Look up the term &#8220;artists&#8217; book&#8221; and you might understand the liberation it affords its creator.<\/p>\n<p>This shot of his book in the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The annotation below the book gives a hint at his approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/?attachment_id=1072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ed-Ruscha-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Ruscha-2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ed-Ruscha-2.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ed-Ruscha-2-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ed-Ruscha-2-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the TateShot ( link below ) he expands on his approach to his work.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/context-comment\/video\/tateshots-ed-ruschas-photography-books<\/p>\n<p>Why am I discussing this? I had labelled Ed Ruscha based on his gasoline stations until I saw the exhibition of his work. That changed my opinion of his work completely. Had I not taken time to visit the de Young Museum I would not have discovered how good an artist he is. Screen views of art wet your appetite, books are a little better but getting up close and personal with art in a gallery works for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/?attachment_id=1070\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1070\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ed-Ruscha-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Ruscha-1\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ed-Ruscha-1.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ed-Ruscha-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ed-Ruscha-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took this photograph I was taking the piss. I am not much into documentary fine art photography and knowing that there was a tradition, in photographic art, of capturing the beauty of petrol stations I decided that I would join in with the fun. When I took it into college I was told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkeye127.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}