Keith Carter, “A certain Alchemy”
Keith Carter is a photographer well known in the fine art community whose work finds the beauty and confers visual significance to ordinary things and has ability to provide a distinct perspective of extraordinary subjects.
Taking pictures is probably where most people start. At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc. So that would be an example of taking a photograph, I suppose. Making photographs is a different mental focus, on a fundamental level you can make things up, on another level you can deal with things that happen in a real world and change them just a little bit…I think there is a more focused and sometimes direct intent when you make photographs and I think the results are generally more coherent, or have a better chance of standing the test of time.- K. Carter [source]
His most recent book is: “A Certain Alchemy“.
© My new book, A certain Alchemy, is my best, although that’s probably what I am supposed to think. I tried to make it reflect the arc of life and our own natural shared histories. It starts out with a homage to Fox-Talbot’s calotypes and ends with my mother, who had been a professional photographer, in the latter stages of Alzheimer’s disease.- Keith Carter
