{"id":2997,"date":"2012-05-13T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/creative-fuel\/"},"modified":"2012-05-13T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:42:56","slug":"creative-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/creative-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a provocative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/05\/09\/norman-seeff-on-his-photo_n_1502992.html\" target=\"_self\">interview<\/a> with celebrity portrait photographer Norman Seeff and enjoyed his response to the question:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Was anyone particularly challenging to photograph?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>NS:&#0160;Yes, me. I was the biggest challenge to my photography, in the sense that I had to shift my paradigm inside out once I began working in the arena of public personalities. My discovery was that true communication is emotion based &#8212; <strong>emotions are the fuel of the creative process<\/strong>.[emphasis mine] <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the world I had come from emotions were considered to be an impediment to being objective. The very inner resources at the source of creativity, both imagination and emotion, were considered weak, irrelevant and embarrassing. And then I find myself in a new world where those fundamental resources of the creative process are the foundation out of which thoughtful creativity emerges. I had to begin learning the 101 fundamentals of how to create an intimate, emotional interaction between artists and it scared the s&#8212; out of me. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a provocative interview with celebrity portrait photographer Norman Seeff and enjoyed his response to the question: Was anyone particularly challenging to photograph? NS:&#0160;Yes, me. I was the biggest challenge to my photography, in the sense that I had to shift my paradigm inside out once I began working in the arena of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","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=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}