Tim Carpenter – To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die

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Tim Carpenter – To Photograph Is To Learn How To DieTo Photograph Is To Learn How To Die is a book length essay about the essential usefulness of the practice of making photographs. Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens and dozens of other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, American photographer Tim Carpenter argues passionately in one main essay and a series of lively digressions that photography is unique among the arts in its capacity for easing the fundamental ache of our mortality; for

reversal (printing)

to those that are heard and to those that go unheard

The flash of the camera plucks them from the darkness: blue plums

and Texte zur Kunst

with texts by Brad Feuerhelm and Ezekiel Honig

met an old friend and started to photograph his series Louvre

But even as the pandemic eased

there were no other extant documents and objects in Dessau

their use and their relation to the body but never mention fashion or style

which is now viewed as a groundbreaking event

or social norms

What if humanity’s primary inventions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats