Eugene Richards

Well I went to the library to get Richards' book The Blue Room, the book is at the library but is still in processing. I have requested the book so as soon as it is ready to be shelved I will post more about it. I am going to talk now about the book review that James Kaufmann did in Photographer's Forum. "The rich color photographs that fill every other page of The Blue Room depict places so totally worn down that it would be easy to call them trashed, but the photographs have such rare beauty that this sort of landfill thinking feels entirely wrong. To call them ruins, maybe, and then think of them as an archeologist might gets closer to the feeling." This is the kind of response that I am looking for from my photographs of houses. I am still trying to figure out how to get it though. "If you look at the photographs that make up The Blue Room long enough, you will see what is left after lives go wrong, bad, down, over and all the way out." I want people to see this with my photographs but also see what was there or could have been there before. I want to get people asking questions about the past and the future. "This image, like so many in The Blue Room, tells us more about loss and pain than the proverbial 1,000 words ever could." The image is not important, since I have let you know that, need I say more.