From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter

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Reflecting on Keith Carter

Reflecting on Keith Carter

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter

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Reflecting on Keith Carter

Chris Orwig: A lot of times when I have a chance to sit down and talk with someone like Keith, immediately afterwards I try to spend some time with my journal, just writing down some thoughts, and ideas and reflections upon what was said; otherwise, I find I lose that information completely. So here I thought it would be interesting to take a few minutes and open up the journal and share with you some of the topics and ideas that struck me or struck a chord with me. First off, when we were chatting, one of the things that I noticed was that Keith is, he is an artist in the truest sense of the word. Where most people see things in terms of limits, that it's confined, it's limited, here is our focus, artists go ahead and look outside of that. That was definitely true as he talked about portraiture. Rather than seeing portraiture as a picture of a person, he said it's more about your intense attention to the subject. It's something different. It's what you bring to that context that…

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