Comments on: Michael Wilson – Pipe Coverer’s Ball https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:47:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: The Ploughshares Round-Down: Waiting on a Job? Grad School? Publisher? Wait Better. | Ploughshares https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/#comment-288325 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:19:56 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=21410#comment-288325 […] the rescue: two artists who know what it means to wait and hope. Photographer Michael Wilson’s new photo essay just came out in Burn Magazine, and artist Ann Hamilton was interviewed for the public radio […]

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By: Paul https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/#comment-284829 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:47:39 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=21410#comment-284829 There’s not much to say here, I think the photographer has summed it up pretty well with his artist statement. I like these images, the whole style and approach and I’ve always felt this kind of photography slows you down and manages to help you see gems in the most unlikely of places. I get the feeling that maybe Keith Carter is a strong influence.

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By: imageconscious https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/#comment-284804 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:49:46 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=21410#comment-284804 to me, these are more than “what would it look like” as a photograph.

successful, succinct formal compositions.

like the work on your website, too. not clear is how you are making a living, as “recent work” seems to be from 2007-2010.

congrats for Burning it up.

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By: Mike R https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/#comment-284594 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:39:06 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=21410#comment-284594 I think that John has it with “lets see what it looks like as a frame, or whatever” as I was reminded, as I viewed the essay, of Gary Winogrand’s quote of “I take photographs to see what things look like as photographs” or something like that. The best of this essay fulfils this aim of giving a simple object a deeper meaning by transforming it into black and white photograph. Even viewed on a screen I can imagine what they would look like as deep, rich, silver halide prints. The words are just right too.

Thanks, Michael.

Mike.

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/#comment-283655 Sun, 16 Feb 2014 01:52:26 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=21410#comment-283655 Michael

“Many of these pictures are not about what they are of.”

Yup, get it, and agree with Patricia.

This is very personal stuff. Your experience will not be the same as mine, but these are the kinds of photos that help us plumb the depths of our own lives. I relate. Some of these photos resonate with me, others not so much, but ain’t that great.
Love your portraits on your site. Congratulations for being here.

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By: bob black https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/#comment-283641 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:53:26 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=21410#comment-283641 Absolutely love….

and since my once long-winded songs have been settled here, I’ll keep it at that:

the pics and the series, songs sifting through the back of the throat. just love it.

“Outside in the barnlot he looked up and the pale moon was directly over him and all-encompassing. It appeared to be lowering itself onto the earth and he could make out mountains and ranges of hills and hollows and dark shadowed areas of mystery he judged to be timber and he wondered what manner of beast thrived there and what their lives were like and the need to be there twisted in his heart like an old pain that will not dissipate.”

― William Gay, Twilight

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By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/#comment-283635 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:51:44 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=21410#comment-283635 Michael, with these images you have woven a tapestry of life, quiet, unassuming, gentle-spirited, true. I found the captions distracting. Idon not need, nor do I want to know the where, when, or what of these fragments of memory. Let them flow through my eyes into my mind with no impediment of facts. To me, it is a meditation, an exercise in letting go and simply BEing with life.

I have heard you say that you have no “book” of coherent images. I beg to differ. This is book I would love to own. Maybe with 20 or so more images, but nothing to destroy the flow. It is beautiful as is.

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By: john gladdy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/02/michael-wilson-pipe-coverers-ball/#comment-283631 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:27:19 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=21410#comment-283631 I like some of your music work. This stuff I dont get; other than the fact that most of us, I think, shoot these little random frames of things, just because they are there and we are there and we have a camera with some film in and ‘fuck it!’ lets see what it looks like as a frame, or whatever.
And most of them look like these of course. One or two on about any given roll give or take. Collecting them is a neat idea too, but it being a neat idea dont always make it a compelling set of images.
Nice words though. They are bang on the money about motive.

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