Too Drunk to Fuck (On the Anxiety of Photoraphy) by Mark Wyse

"Photography has shifted from being a discourse on trying to understand the world to a discourse on trying to understand ourselves. "

Does the true anxiety of a photographer come from the desire to know or feel a meaning behind an image? Depedening upon what you choose to derive from photography as you create an image, is your answer. In this essay by Mark Wyse, Wyse compares Nan Goldin, who uses photography to bring fourth emotion and feeling to her images, and Christopher Williams, who uses intellect within the creation of images. Each creating a sense of desire for the image either within its creation processes or desire for the image itself. The confusion lies within the interpretation. Do we as viewers project meaning where there isn't any, or lose the meaning in something overwhelmed with it?

 

"There is a difference between interpreting and experiencing: the former is a learned thing, an exercise in knowledge; the latter is perhaps more humanly accessible"