Only with a poet's eye can see?

Essay Photographic Arts

This essay argued about building image by the photographer. The photograph perceived as a possibility for creative practice, artistic and transformative, which involves risks. In this context, freedom and plurality produce various directions, and ports to other looks. For both, there is the need for production of subjectivities, reinventions of the objects, of himself, and the world itself. In this sense, construction of image acts as a transforming force. The reading is here discussed as deciphering the visual treatment. Read the images are inferred; print an interpretation, generating different meanings according to the nature of this interaction.

This essay is an encouragement to revisit the photography, and image building, taken as a production process of inventive and artistic experience a surprise appearance, full of poetry, lyricism, and visual metaphors. The photo to the poet Drummond, participates in the poetic magic. Since, according to him, yet, it is inevitable that each technical procedure, performed with love and precision, it gives off a special poetry.

Given this assumption it can be asked: The idea overlaps the technique? As much as they are precise techniques, and equipment on images and their treatment, the more important is the look of the photographer. In this sense we can say that an idea may overlay technique.

The photographer, as a "doer" (photographer / poet) made to feel, look, think, and have ownership of the technology required for such equipment and not necessarily of extreme complexity and value. This is not to address the interference of software that take the photograph to give it a new meaning, and facilities. But yes, of appropriating the picture to speak of the imagination through experimentation and visual metaphors. There is also the challenge of originality that is required in the search for an approach “not seen”.

The many possibilities that stretched through the digital cameras were a great achievement. There are many authors who claim that photography is seen as the most popular arts. With digital cameras this art has widened further. Since, also, that photography has an overarching role.

The photo to distance himself  from his various roles, whether documentary, registration, information, and to penetrate into the territory of beauty, seeking the unusual, the connotative. It is also true that we must never confuse image with reality. Other hand, beauty can also be present, for example, in photojournalism, which display the full capacity to transmit information can with some adjustment made by the photographer to make use of connotation, in a purely denotative message.

The photography is art. It must also be an important manifestation of poetic vision. Impossible  to remain indifferent to a composition that is obedient to the rigors of the arts more conservative.

The prospect that followed is that "only through the eyes of poet you can see, but only to the privileged gaze of a photographer / poet is possible to obtain plastic solutions aimed at the representation for the expression, registration, or other functions photo, not just giving you the denotative function.

Besides this overall diagnosis test that allows any exploration. Among them the most significant experiences emphasizing that this is a clipping from a perception of the author, this almost poetic proximity with the watchful eye of the photographer.

The Arts in the work of Menedico

Benedito Cesar Silva (Menedico) is not a professional who does homogeneous work. He is multiple in both life and work. He's a self-taught fine artist and photographer, and however much this expression is feared, his case validates it. He moves from painting to photography and poetry. He has also worked with series. His photos sometimes distance themselves from their documentary function to enter the realm of beauty and aesthetic composition, with poetic proximity to the watchful eyes of the photographer. He seeks yet another form of artistic expression in painting, with abstractionism as the emphasis of his work. His work in fine arts may be acquired by DEMOCRART by the method giclée on high quality printing. Museum quality! The company's proposal is to make art accessible to everyone. Purchases can be divided in twelve times. Access: www.democrart.com.br

About Digital Media

        Consumers today are directly influenced by the emerging digital media. The new means of dissemination and propagation of texts and images are changing the habit of reading throughout the world. The distance is shorter. It seems that we are closer. That is why I invite everyone to visit my website www.beneditocesar.com and visit the exhibition "Territories". Extraordinary! 

        The images captured are of rare beauty. The sensations and emotions transmitted by the photos offer moments of reflection on the importance that increasingly assumes the protection of life. The goal of the "Territories" exhibition is to promote the natural aesthetic elements, where flora and fauna in particular are presented as vectors of an intense force that legitimize the natural environment where they exist. The photos speak for themselves, thus becoming records of consummate beauty and happening.

        Although "Territories" brings out specific fragments, it embraces various organisms, one and inseparable, creating ties of identity and belonging. The E-book includes beautiful and impressive images of flora and fauna, where the nature of one of the neighborhoods of the city of Camanducaia, Minas Gerais can be appreciated up close.

Are you creative?

        The very word "creativity" points out the way to us for its comprehension and contextualization. To create with activity is to extract from sameness the creativity needed at certain moments. It takes much activity until one reaches a feverish anxiety so that something will come out well. We must leave the habitual, make mistakes and change without fear, forget absolute truths, put aside rational thought. Creativity is linked to the absurd. What role to we want to play in the world? Creative behavior is a product of the view we have of ourselves.
        To be creative we have to get outside the box, away from what makes us feel safe, we have to see from other angles. Creativity emerges from initiative and persistence, without the right dose. To support this position we must consider that the act of creating should be cultivated only if it is pleasurable. Creation is a constant struggle. Precious lessons can be learned by watching children. They truly possess heightened creativity because they are free of social constraints, and they act without fear and limitations.
        Over the years we are shaped, and we need to rediscover and develop the creativity that is within us. It's essential to stimulate it. This rediscovery is individual, not transferable. When the opposite affects us we tend to be more creative because of our needs.
        Finally, we are all creative. It is imperative to free ourselves from the paradigm that condemns in advance any personal effort toward a creative action that will fill what we do with originality.

Literature is something of the past?

We are used to make something of the literature of the past. But, a growing number of authors who in different looks, and shapes portray the present. The contemporary world is present in several texts of these authors, who search the Internet a way to show the world. In this world view and the use of its technology is not necessary to speak of literature as something of the past. Even micro blogs people are portraying the world, making literature. What could the great masters of the past if they had their time in the availability of technology? But what would we be without Gutenberg?