Farm Ridge/Bogong
The base photograph for this image was recorded along the now-overgrown Farm Ridge Fire Trail, at the top of a climb up from the Tumut River and several kilometres north of the ruins of the Farm Ridge Hut. It looks…
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Category Text in photography
Doubtful
The place names of the Snowy Mountains region have always seemed very special. For me at least, they have a romantic, even magical resonance in their sounds and the feelings that they evoke. Names like ‘Bogong’, ‘Monaro’, ‘Crackenback’, ‘Dead Horse…
Behold, my land is before you – Monaro ‘textscape’
The inclusion of text with this panoramic Monaro landscape image (along the Jindabyne-Dalgety road) fundamentally alters the image. From being simply a view of a specific rural landscape with a fence, a stark bare tree and a distant line of…
Ten-Mile Stare – Monaro ‘textscape’
This image has much in common with the previous Willy Gray picture. The base image was taken at the same time and location (mid-winter 2012 near Dalgety in the Monaro region of NSW). It’s a little more colour-saturated, and although…
Willy Gray – Monaro ‘textscape’
The text incorporated in this Monaro landscape image (three original photographs taken near Dalgety) is from The Monaro – a poem by David Campbell (reproduced in his Collected Poems). The full verse is: “Willy Gray has a lover’s eye and…
No message
I’ve been reading a little about the functions and mechanisms by which ‘signs’ (in the broadest sense of the word) operate. Icon, index and symbol, and the often impenetrable language of the semioticians. But some of the most obvious and…
Text in photography
This post contains some thoughts on the incorporation of text in still photography, and was written as notes for my Private Thoughts in Public Places project. Text and images have been combined in art since writing was first used. Written…
Private Thoughts in Public Places
Private Thoughts in Public Places is a short (12 minute) video slideshow (with voices, music and subtitle text) which I prepared as a studio practice project for my studies at the ANU School or Art. It aims to bring into…