2024 01 04
This album got me thinking about art and how music is, rightfully, among the most celebrated of art forms (and how photography is not even really considered art). Within a song, let alone an entire album, you have countless opportunities to connect with an audience. A catchy lyric, fun melody, weird sound, etc. Even the world’s most iconic photographs are like the equivalent of a single note, or perhaps on a good day a little jingle (photography books or collections is another story!). Sometimes a photographer will hit a home run and merge a striking image with a relevant global conversation and it can connect and have a deeper impact, like the memorable photojournalistic images through the years, but even my strongest images will be mostly forgotten by next Tuesday.
Anyway, this album is better than 99.86% of the world’s photographs.
Boy, you’re pessimistic on photography! Do you hate it? More on this later.
Enjoy!
-Clayton
Sloppy Bob. November, 2023. Chicago. ©Clayton Hauck
A fun album I recently came upon via Ezra Furman’s favorite albums of 2023 list:
This album got me thinking about art and how music is, rightfully, among the most celebrated of art forms (and how photography is not even really considered art). Within a song, let alone an entire album, you have countless opportunities to connect with an audience. A catchy lyric, fun melody, weird sound, etc. Even the world’s most iconic photographs are like the equivalent of a single note, or perhaps on a good day a little jingle (photography books or bodies of work is another story!). Sometimes a photographer will hit a home run and merge a striking image with a relevant global conversation and it can connect and have a deeper impact, like the memorable photojournalistic images through the years, but even my strongest images will be mostly forgotten by next Tuesday.
Anyway, this album is better than 99.86% of the world’s photographs.
Enjoy!
-Clayton