A picture lasts longer.
i’ve been going through a wicked photography phase. I’m not sure why. I think it has something to do with Stephen Shore. I really like the subtlety of his photos. It’s like each one is a record. But it’s really just a record of what he saw in a street corner, a living room. I guess when we were packing up his exhibit I saw a photo and something about it made me like photography much more.
The downside of this phase is that I’m way less into painting than I used to be. I had some time because I needed to get out of our cataloguing software so I wandered around the museum and was glad to find that I liked the real version of the Helen Frankenthaler piece we have in the museum better than I like the picture of it on the internet.
I guess the point of this is that Kyle and I are getting a new camera that’s significantly better than the one we had before, but still not an SLR. So that’s fine. I know how I burn out on hobbies and I don’t want something so cumbersome that it’s not functional if I lose interest in it. This camera is a great in-between.