{"id":2980,"date":"2012-09-15T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/09\/overwhelmingly-beautiful\/"},"modified":"2012-09-15T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T12:26:48","slug":"overwhelmingly-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/09\/overwhelmingly-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelmingly Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theres a remarkable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/news\/specials\/2012\/cushman\/\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a> on NPR about a darkroom technician in Indiana who salvages some color slides that are headed for the trash and subsequently discovers the work of one Charles Cushman, an early adopter of the brand new technology of color photography.<\/p>\n<p>Cushman documents, almost obsessively, his travels around the country, pointing his camera at everything &#8212; from the fog-shrouded Golden Gate Bridge to inner city families to pastoral scenes and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p>Though there is apparently not much of a record of what motivated Cushman, except for the images themselves, the narrator suggests that Cushman was using photography to uncover beauty and bring meaning and order to an otherwise chaotic world:<\/p>\n<p><em>I think the camera was a way of putting a frame around that, codifying it &#8212; just being able to deal with it in some way that made it manageable&#8230;.a lot of times I think that&#39;s what this life is about &#8212; being able to come to terms with the things you find so overwhelmingly beautiful.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theres a remarkable story on NPR about a darkroom technician in Indiana who salvages some color slides that are headed for the trash and subsequently discovers the work of one Charles Cushman, an early adopter of the brand new technology of color photography. Cushman documents, almost obsessively, his travels around the country, pointing his camera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}