Martin Gayford on Ordinary and Extraordinary:
great pictures are often images of very commonplace sights.via What makes William Eggleston's ordinary photographs so extraordinary? by Martin Gayford.
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Thursday, August 4, 2016
Ordinary Extraordinary - Martin Gayford (Thu 04 Aug 2016)
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Discipline - Fawzan Husain / Anahita Panicker (Thu 14 Jul 2016)
I want to bring in the discipline of the art and essentially want them to include the five Ws (what, why, where, when, who) in their pictures. So many narratives are often overlooked in this frenzy of shooting unnecessary, mundane things. And many times we don’t concentrate on the things we should actually be looking at.via Street-savvy photography by Anahita Panicker.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
On Taking Pictures that Matter - Marc Riboud / Ayesugul Sert (Apr 2005)
Marc Riboud on taking Pictures that Matter:
We take good pictures, we become good photographers by living life, by talking to people, avoiding preconceived ideas, and being open. That’s how we get to take pictures that matter.via Marc Riboud on Photography, Hard Work and How We are All the Same by Ayesugul Sert [original here]
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
On Photography and Truth - Andre D. Wagner / abstractelements (Sun 09Aug 2015)
Andre D. Wagner on Photography and Truth:
the mystic power of good photography or intelligent work. it’s not about pretty pictures for me, it’s about truth. truth is magnificent and truth is layered. truth sometimes hurt but truth will always be beautiful.via new york city, 2015 *it’s not too often that one of my... by Andre D. Wagner.
Saturday, July 25, 2015
On the Gift of Photography - Stephen Dupont / Ella Rubeli (Wed 08 Jul 2015)
Stephen Dupont on the Gift of Photography:
I feel more grateful more than anything, that I'm allowed to go in and capture these moments, because you don't take pictures . . . you're given pictures, it's a giftvia Photojournalist Stephen Dupont captures modern-day Papua New Guinea by Ella Rubeli.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
On Photography - Martin Elkort (Mon 09 Apr 2001)
When something inside me resonates with what I see, my finger moves to the shutter. In that moment, I have understood and explained both the inner and outer worlds I inhabit. When others see my pictures and react, I know that I have captured a moment in life. These moments are the core of my art.via Why I Take Pictures by Martin Elkort.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
On the Thrill of Street Photography - Mary Ellen Mark / Nicole Crowder (Wed 27 May 2015)
Mary Ellen Mark on the Thrill of Street Photography and :
From the very first moment I took pictures [on the streets of Philadelphia], I loved it. The thrill was the idea of just being on a street, turning a corner and looking for something to see. It was just an amazing feeling. Photography became my obsession. In a way it’s not so different when I go out to work now. It’s just that now I have years of experience in knowing how to use that little machine in front of me – at least better than I used it then. When it’s good and interesting it’s still that feeling of being on the street and wondering — God, I love this! - what’s going to happen next?
via Celebrating the legacy of photographer Mary Ellen Mark, dead at age 75 by Nicole Crowder.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Photos and how we feel when we Remember - Colin Pantell (Tue 18 Mar2014)
Colin Pantall on Photography and Remembering:
It's strange how one remembers things without being aware on any conscious level of why one remembers or how one remembers. [..]Perhaps it might be good to reach elsewhere for our ideas on photography, outside the small, incestuous world of photo-theory so that we can add to and enrich our understanding of how images work with added engagement and added interest. Today, cognitive and social psychology might be good places to start. [..]
I can't help but feel that there is also an element of the false memory (more of which in a different post) and wish fulfilment in there as well.
The idea that when we see those happy pictures, we remember them and feel that those happy times will come again.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
On Photography and Editing - Larry Towell / James Estrin (Mon 10 Nov 2014)
Larry Towell (*) writes on Photography (*) and Editing (*):
Photography is not just about seeing and taking pictures, it’s also about making sense of the photograph and making sense of it is what editing does, .. You take a series of photographs, you tell a story (*) with them and many pictures fall between the cracks in the process. [..]via Magnum’s Archive of Once-Orphaned Photos (*) by James Estrin (*).
When you’re editing you’re editing towards a certain end, and when that end is met you forget about the pictures that didn’t make it, .. What this Magnum project has done is allowed us to go back and re-edit. There isn’t enough re-editing being done today.
Venice.
Friday, November 7, 2014
On being a Photographer- David Campany (Nov 2014)
David Campany (*) writes on being a Photographer (*):
there are only four ways to function as a photographer. Either you are independently wealthy; or you get paid to take pictures (a commercial photographer, with whatever independence of mind you can retain); or you get paid for photographs (i.e. as an artist [..]); or your photography is a hobby, a pastime, and you earn your living elsewhere.via Walker Evans: the magazine work STEIDL, 2014 (*) by David Campany (*).
I definitely fall into the last category. I have a few photos in books and given away some prints to friends. So, I guess, being a photographer, is mostly about me.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
On Street Photography - Steven Rosen and Brian Sholis (Wed 08 Oct 2014)
Steven Rosen (*) writes Street Photography (*):
The mid-20th century was when street photography became well known, thanks to photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand and others. Armed with unobtrusive hand-held cameras, they rapidly snapped pictures of passersby, searching for unstudied compositions [..]Brian Sholis (*) continues:
In the 21st century, for better or worse, there are fewer people at home during the day and we’ve offloaded a lot of that ‘eyes on the street’ to surveillance cameras,Steven Rosen (*) summarises:
At the same time, those cameras fill many with unease.Brian Sholis (*) concludes:
So 21st century street photographers are dealing with techniques and issues far different from their forebears
What unites them is they’re incredibly attentive and able to reveal things that we might not otherwise see because the street is such a kinetic and dynamic placevia Street Photography in the 21st Century (*) by Steven Rosen (*).
Sunday, September 28, 2014
On Photography - Sven Kraeuter (Fri 26 Sep 2014)
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
On Photos and Process - Jörg Colberg (Tue 19 Aug 2014)
Jörg Colberg (*) writes on Photos (*) and Process (*):
At the end of the day, it should be about the pictures. [..]via On Process (Further Down the Rabbit Hole) (*) by Jörg Colberg (*).
So I look at the pictures first – are they any good? – and then at the process.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
On Photography and Vivian Maier - Ella Taylor (Fri 28 Mar 2914)
Ella Taylor (*) writes On Vivian Maier (*), photography (*) and maybe a few more of us:
Perhaps she just loved taking pictures; perhaps they kept her company or even prevented her, for a while, from falling apart. Perhaps it never crossed her mind that she was an artist.via 'Vivian Maier' Brings Nanny-Photographer's Life Into Focus (*) by Ella Taylor (*).
In 2010 as I struggled with the loss of Jenny (*), those around me were concerned. So I am thankful to my Mother who suggested I should try to get back into my photography and Jo, who independently, suggested I start to organise my photos. And so I did (*), and still do ..
Monday, March 31, 2014
On Vivian Maier - Jerry Saltz / Vulture (Sun 30 Jun 2014)
Jerry Saltz (*) writes On Vivian Maier (*):
She was a servant of her talent (*), compelled to use her servitude (*) to make what she needed to make. [..]via Jerry Saltz on Finding Vivian Maier: An Invisible Artist and the Man Who Found Her (*) by Jerry Saltz (*).
Bells go off when you look at her pictures; you become witness to something big. Proust talked of "the apogee of the particular." That's here. This gives Maier's work psychological and philosophical force, something deeply observant. At the same time, she also has an outsider's (*) view of the world. She's one who watches, silently observes (*), is alert to the tiniest disturbance in the visual or psychic field. [..] The valor of being alive comes into focus.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
On Photography - Mark Cohen / Eric Kim Blog (Mon 17 Feb 2014)
Mark Cohen (*) on Photography (*):
When you feel like you’re making pictures - the most important is to make new pictures. The pictures you already took - you already took those pictures. My main drive is to do something new - to make some new kind of picture.via 14 Lessons Mark Cohen Has Taught Me About Street Photography (*) by Eric Kim (*).
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
On Photography and Light - Mike Johnston (Wed 19 Feb 2014)
Mike Johnston (*) writes On Photography (*) and Light (*:
The number of possible pictures is infinite. In every light, there are some that work. The trick is not finding the "right" light. The trick is finding the right picture in the light you're in.via Ask Mike (*) by Mike Johnston (*).
Thursday, December 19, 2013
On Training and Discipline - Siegfried Hansen / Eric Kim Street Photography (Wed 18 Dec 2013)
Siegfried Hansen (*) writes On Traininng (*) and Discipline (*):
There are many things you learn by training (*) and discipline (*), but overall you should internalize both theory (*) and technique (*) to a point that you can fully concentrate (*) on the moment when taking pictures. I navigate through [..] my hometown, almost blindly (*) on certain routes, focusing on things that are happening around me. It’s all coincidental, nothing is preset.via Capturing Harmony on the Streets through Graphical Images: Interview with Siegfried Hansen (*) by Eric Kim (*).
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
On Appreciation - Jorg Colberg / Conscientious Photography Magazine (Tue 26 Nov 2013)
Jorg Colberg (*) writes (*):
I have literally no idea who any of the people (*) in these pictures are, yet I am interested in each and every one of them. [..]via Eva Vermandel’s Splinter (*) by Conscientious Photography Magazine (*).
So then, let’s appreciate (*). To appreciate (*) can mean all kinds of things. In photography, it means to become aware of a moment that might signify something to be appreciated (*), to then capture it as a photograph so that it can be looked at later.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
On Photography - Jorg Colberg (Mon 09 Sep 2013)
Jorg Colberg (*) writes On Photography (*):
Photography is a unique medium, in that it can take selected moments from the world and freeze them forever. We are often led to think all kinds of things that upon closer examination have very little to do with what is in the pictures.via Vittoria Mentasti and a Woman With Two Names (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).
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