Hugh Blackmer's postings for the Simplicity workshop

(an online course with Andy Ilachinski, Fall 2017)

Who Is and general links

First week

• Exercise S1-1: Describe yourself as a photographer
• Exercise S1-2: Simplicity
• Exercise S1-3: Some favorites of the moment
• Exercise S1-4: Examples of my work

Other subjects

• Symmetry and Tessellation
• Aaron Siskind
• Ensōs and Doors: Carl Chiarenza and Aaron Siskind
• Japanese Photography
• Insight
• Andy's "Epiphanous" 10 (Tao of Photography posts, 2006)
• Insight, take 2

Second week

• Exercise S2-3: The art of attentive observing
• Exercise S2-5: Learning to saunter

Third week

• Ensōs and Autumn Leaves (George DeWolfe)
• On Andy's Week 3 essay
• Japanese aesthetics: on wabi sabi
• modulation

Fourth week

• another stab at Simplicity (and a trip to Nova Scotia)

Fifth week

• Exercise S5-1: Looking at Abstractions
• Exercise S5-2: Finding Abstractions in the World
• Exercise S5-3: Creating Abstracts from Non-Abstractions

Sixth week

• Exercise S6-1: Reflect on your own body of work
• Backstory (rambling narrative)
• Chronological portfolio of digital work, 2008-2017