(embiggenable) • made from iPhone picture
(embiggenable) • made from iPhone pictures
(embiggenable) • made from iPhone pictures
(embiggenable) • made from iPhone pictures
NOT ALL OF THE QUOTES TO BE FOUND in the curriculum texts-volumes of quotes-in my ideal photography school of higher learning would be from just photographers. I have found quite a few intelligent and informative quotes from a number of other sources, especially so from authors of works of fiction.
Case in point, this bit from one of my favorite authors, Jean Shepherd....
Of all the world’s photographers, the lowliest and least honored is the simple householder who desires only to “have a camera around the house” and to “get a picture of Dolores in her graduation gown.” He lugs his primitive equipment with him on vacation trips, picnics, and family outings of all sorts. His knowledge of photography is about that of your average chipmunk. He often has trouble loading his camera, even after owning it for twenty years. Emulsion speeds, f-stops, meter readings, shutter speeds have absolutely no meaning to him, except as a language he hears spoken when, by mistake, he wanders into a real camera store to buy film instead of his usual drugstore. His product is almost always people- or possession-oriented. It rarely occurs to such a photographer to take a picture of something, say a Venetian fountain, without a loved one standing directly in front of it and smiling into the lens. What artistic results he obtains are almost inevitably accidental and totally without self-consciousness. Perhaps because of his very artlessness, and his very numbers, the nameless picture maker may in the end be the truest and most valuable recorder of our times. He never edits; he never editorializes; he just snaps away and sends the film off to be developed, all the while innocently freezing forever the plain people of his time in all their lumpishness, their humanity, and their universality. ~ Jean Shepherd
iMo, a lot of "serious" picture makers have forgotten, if they ever knew, how to have fun making pictures.