Basically, I live in Grant Wood country. His landscape paintings are
composites of things I see here and there all the time, but the
elements rarely come together at one time as they do in his paintings.
Only one person I know has ever looked at a landscape of mine and
said "That looks like Grant Wood." It was probably more gratifying
than any other compliment I've been given about my photos, except that
I didn't feel it was really true. I'm not trying to make a photograph
that looks like a Wood painting. I just want to get the same feeling
that he evokes in the landscape and do some kind of justice to it.
I think I'm getting closer. I spend a lot of time on the evenings and
weekends working the narrow (but still mostly paved) roads on my
motorcycle, which is the only OM/E-thingie carrier I can park on the
narrow shoulders of these county roads.
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/
Joel W.
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