{"id":7040,"date":"2011-11-19T06:36:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T10:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2011-11-19T06:36:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T10:36:45","slug":"qa-sean-duggan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/7040\/qa-sean-duggan\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Questions With Photographer Sean Duggan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SeanDugganQA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7044\" title=\"SeanDugganQA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SeanDugganQA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanduggan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Duggan <\/a>provides quick candid answers to 20\u00a0questions<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the best thing about photography?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt provides a window through which we can view our own world, as well as the world\u00a0beyond our experience, other realities and other visions.<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the worst thing about photography?<\/strong><br \/>\nThat there so much of it. Our culture is so inundated with photographs that they can\u00a0become the visual equivalent of background noise<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the thing that interests you most about other people&#8217;s photographs?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe way they see and interpret their world. Their unique visions show me things I could\u00a0not imagine, and present new conceptual pathways to follow.<br \/>\n<strong>What benefits do you get from (this\/these) other art form\/s?<\/strong><br \/>\nPoetry helps me to be visually sensitive to the possibility of metaphor in an image; it\u00a0helps me appreciate photographs as visual poems.<br \/>\nWriting helps me to more fully explore and understand ideas and concepts.<br \/>\nMaking sculptural assemblages is a tactile and three-dimensional way to explore ideas\u00a0through the combination of different materials and found objects. This work often\u00a0directly influences my \u201cArtifacts of an Uncertain Origin\u201d series of photographs.<br \/>\n<strong>What failure did you learn the most from?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo particular failure, but the general idea that in any failure there is an opportunity to\u00a0learn something, to take that knowledge, start again, and do it better.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/q-and-a\/SeanDuggan.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the rest of Sean&#8217;s answers here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/q-and-a\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read other photographers answers to the same questions here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/seanduggan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find out more about Sean Duggan here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/artists\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find more Photographers On Photography resources here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Duggan provides quick candid answers to 20\u00a0questions What&#8217;s the best thing about photography? 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