Charles Stroh, Photography
Aug 2008 to Sep 2008, Oakwood Neighborhood
Artist Statement
These photographs don’t require much attendant verbiage.
They are straight-forward, mostly unmanipulated images recorded in 2007 and 2008 at CampBell Lake in Comstock Township. What may require some explanation are the titles.
Each photograph is linked by title to a painter from history. In some cases, you probably can see the immediate connection. In others, you may have to stretch a bit. These are my associations, after all, and they may not reflect your own.
Sunsets have become an artistic taboo among artists for over a century and making them opens the image-maker to the possible charge of being an amateur and not serious, or, even worse, a panderer to public taste.
Maybe my cowardly nature has chosen to associate my photo image with a painter of consequence to protect my vulnerable and delicate ego from such charges.
Then again, maybe not.
Charles Stroh – August, 2008
