What makes for a great photograph? I was struck by something I read recently:
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Category: thinking about photography (Page 1 of 3)
Some people think that images and words do not mix, or that words detract from or limit the power of images in some way. In this post I simply want to raise some questions about this …
Continue readingI think it was Adlai Stevenson who said ‘You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity – the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table’. There is a genre of indoor photography that I call kitchen table photography, although often, kitchen tables do not feature …
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I have long been fascinated by the American Road Trip. Brought up on a literary diet of Kerouac, Steinbeck and Pirsig and then aspiring to the photography of those photo wanderers Frank, Friedlander and Shore, I had always wanted to experience the back-roads of rural America.
Continue readingJust a brief note on some useful smartphone apps that I use for my film photography (if that’s not an oxymoron) .
Continue readingAs a life-long learner and a ‘mature’ (i.e. old) student of Philosophy I find much to appreciate in the pictures and words of Wynn Bullock. Alongside Minor White, a more thought-provoking photographer you will struggle to find.
Continue reading“Searching is everything – going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you“. 1
It has always seemed to me that a photograph (and perception) is never just of a something. It is of ‘a something’ as a certain type of thing. Cooper’s photographs remind me of this insight.
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What is style? If there is such a thing, must we find one? Or should we be talking about a signature?
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I look at Fay Godwin photographs almost every day of my life. Four photographs hang in my sitting room and have been there for 25 years or so. Perhaps more than anyone, Fay Godwin’s work has been a perennial influence on me as a photographer.
Continue readingYou can’t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
Fay Godwin
Later Godwin was to say that there is no such thing as a definitive picture
A recent post by Bruce Robbins (‘The Online Darkroom”) entitled ‘Boring Photography’ got me thinking about the word ‘boring’ in the context of taking photographs …
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Scanned from Prints.
Lith: North Dakota Abandoned Farm
Lith and Bleach: Abandoned Farm, ND
Paper Negative: Trees, Galloway, Scotland
Abandoned slate mill, North Wales
Tree line, Wirral
Amazon, Berlin
Altar, Tunbridge, North Dakota
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