iPixs 365: iPhoneography for January 2010

Posted by Devon Akmon | Filed under Art & Design

I began the year with a small but ambitious creative project: to take at least one photograph per day using my iPhone. The goals for this project are 1) to inject some much needed creativity into my day; 2) to get me back into the groove of photography; and 3) to examine the world with a curious eye. So far, the project has been both challenging and fun. It’s really hard to stop and find time for photography during the course of a hectic day. However, I look forward to these creative moments. I am hoping to see some personal and creative growth over the course of this project.

All of the images in the following collection were photographed using an iPhone and edited, toned and processed with the device as well. No cleaning or toning using Photoshop CS4!

As mentioned in my previous post, Photographic Goals for 2010, I plan on sharing these images each month. Here are the photographs for January 2010. You can also check out the set at Flickr.

I’ll leave you with this passage from Henri Cartier-Bresson’s book, The Mind’s Eye:

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry – it is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression. One must always take photographs with the greatest respect for the subject and oneself.

To take photographs is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

To take photographs means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second – both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis.

- Devon Akmon

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