What is Photography

I thought this was excellent. I enjoyed reading it and looking at the other links as well. Thanks for posting it. - jim
 
I very much enjoyed the read so thanks Michael.

Would I agree, mostly but perhaps my ludicrous romanticism was stoked by his poetic outlook?!

Perhaps the truth, if there is one, lies somewhere between his advice and the harsher points raised by Hsg.

For me the most salient point was to photograph purely for oneself. Attempting to please others or follow the aesthetic of others leads nowhere.

I'm also thinking of resisting the label of photographer and referring to myself purely as a flaneur, though my wife may suggest 'prat' as more appropriate.
 
Hsg said:
The only problem with this article is that it assumes a photographer who travels around to new places constantly. Most of us are stuck to the place where we live, and no matter how interesting a place it might be after sometime it becomes boring.

The biggest challenge in photography is overcoming this boredom, and while gear buying can be a quick fix, there is no quick fix to overcoming the natural subject boredom that occurs to every photographer.


This article is misleading because it might fill the head of a new photographer that photography is all about romantic walks and shaded trees and what not... In fact its the opposite, most of the time, its walking around aimlessly, and feeling really bored - that is the reality of photography.
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That is your reality.
A quick drive/ride etc most of us can be somewhere different to our home local scene.

New shadows and the falling of light each day with different people coming and going can be inspiration enough for me.

Why walk aimlessly.....
Walk to take photos! Follow the light, pick a subject for a day, or a lens, or something.....
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Walker Evans states what he thinks it ain't LOL
"Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach."- Walker Evans
 
I had that recent book of Sergio Larrain's photographs in my Amazon cart for over $200, but then found the French version, with presumably the same pictorial content, for under $100. That was better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick, as my mother used to say.
 
airfrogusmc said:
Walker Evans states what he thinks it ain't LOL
"Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach."- Walker Evans
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I love Walker Evans, but he's wrong... ;)
 
Just bought this months BW magazine in which it is reported that Sergio Larrain: Vagabond Photographer has been shortlisted as one of three books for the Kraszna Krausk Book Awards for photography and the moving image.

The other two are History of Photography in China :Chinese Photographers by Terry Bennett and The Enclave ,Photographs by Richard Mosse : Anna O`Sullivan and Jason Stearns.
 
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