Vol. 7, No. 23 — June 3, 2020
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There’s this thing that a lot of photographers do. I’m sure I’m guilty of it myself. When we’re showing our images to someone, the tendency is to ramble on about various details concerning the photograph. Sometimes, it’s just something simple, like the city or region you were in when you took the photograph.
But other times, the stories we tell are quite in depth. It almost puts me in mind of a fisherman’s tales, how the fish keeps growing bigger with each iteration of the telling. Our own photographic stories tend to get longer as we add more details and as the memories of the day those images were taken grow fonder...
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Making Connections with Your Viewers
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Art is, in its most basic form, a type of communication. The artist, whether a photographer, painter or writer, takes a subject and pours his or her heart and soul into it, hoping that when the viewer sees it, some connection will be made, that the artist will be able to successfully transmit, through the work, some sort of meaning or message. Author Stephen King has an excellent quotation about this in his book, On Writing. The first line of the
chapter, “What Writing Is” reads, “Telepathy, of course.” If you keep reading, further on down the page, he goes on to say this: “All the arts depend on telepathy to some degree.” In this chapter, he talks about how words are a kind of mental transmission from the author to the reader in which the reader gets to see and experience what the author imagined as he or she wrote the story...
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Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
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It’s something I’ve talked about before, this idea that what makes a photograph unique and art-worthy isn’t the setting, the subject or really anything but the photographer who took the photograph. We have all been places that many other photographers have stood, and we’ve all taken photographs of the same or similar subjects using similar compositions. With billions of photographs in existence, it’s difficult to avoid creating something that hasn’t
already been done in similar fashion. And this is the biggest reason why photography, in the end, really is about the photographer...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: More Than the Decisive Moment
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When people think of Henri Cartier-Bresson, there is a very good chance that the first thing to come to mind is The Decisive Moment. Not only is that the title of a book by Cartier-Bresson but it is also the philosophy that he is most famous for. Essentially, the decisive moment that Cartier-Bresson refers to is that split-second creativity that happens when a photographer presses the shutter release at just the right time. Blink and you’ll miss
it...
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There is a wealth of photography books out there that are useful for photographers at every stage. Here are some of the books that I recommend!
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Throughout my life, I’ve spent hours upon hours in a doctor’s office. One of the things I enjoy while waiting is writing music on my laptop and phone. These short unfinished electronic musical themes are just doodles per se to pass the time. Enjoy.
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