Tokyo work prints

Last weekend we visited John and we took home a haul of work prints.

Looking at photographs online is convenient and if they are hanging in a gallery they must be art. But for appreciating what makes some photographs beautiful objects, there’s nothing like a print that you can pick up and handle (even photographs in books do well on this score). Flipping through the prints, I got a better sense of what John is after, consciously or unconsciously, in his work. He finds those parts of the world that look back at you when you look at them through the camera; the way that massive shapes come together to frame the world; the commotion of human activity; the restful disposition of objects.