An artist, just like everyone else is enmeshed in time. She responds to events in her lifetime using the tools available at that time. Not too mention that she is reacting to not only current events but also too prevailing viewpoints and attitudes as well as the general state of knowledge at her point in time.
I walk down Amsterdam Avenue in New York’s Upper West Side on an almost daily basis, almost always going past The Cathedral of St. John The Divine. I am fascinated by the structure itself and also the environment immediately surrounding it. Hmm, I wonder if I could make a series of it? Maybe, but anyway, I digress. In order to photograph the Cathedral and surrounding buildings you almost always have to point you camera upwards and either live with the keystoning or otherwise use it as design. But recent versions of various image processing software include a keystoning correction tool that works very well.
The image above could only be done with a large format camera that has all the tilts and shifts needed in the days of film to correct for perspective in camera. But I actually used my Fujifilm XE-3 camera and Photoshop to correct the perspective. This is a rather flimsy example of the point I am trying to make but it does show that unlike past photographers I can combine the spontaneity of street photography with some of the precision of architectural photography for (what I hope is) a unique perspective on my environment and time.
Force Of Seeing 