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some interesting ideas in here and some other ideas that didn’t age well. i’d recommend if you’re interested in the relationship between art forms and reality and how we experience the world. looking forward to reading against interpretation.
Remember when academics veiled meaning with eloquent prose? When they lingered around the line between stimulating and obscurity?
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This book was a good one to pick up and read a few pages at a time. There were some slow parts but I felt like I needed to pay attention because there were definitely some profound hidden gems. Here were some of my favorites:
Pg 42 "The photographer is supertourist, an extension of the anthropologist, visiting natives and bringing back news of their exotic doings and strange gear. The photographer is always trying to colonize new experiences or find new ways to look at familiar subjects - to fight against boredom."
"Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. More beautiful, by modern taste." -- how I feel in Brooklyn
For Cartier-Bresson, to take photographs is "to find the structure of the world - to revel in the pure pleasure of form," to disclose that "in all this chaos, there is order."
"The image must exist in the photographer's mind at or before the moment when the negative is exposed...most photographers have always had- with good reason-an almost superstitious confidence in the lucky accident."
"Just to show something, anything, in the photographic view is to show that it is hidden."
"While many people in non-industrialized countries still feel apprehensive when being photographed, divining it to be some kind of trespass, an act of disrespect, a sublimated looting of the personality or the culture, people in industrialized countries seek to have their photographs taken - feel that they are images, and are made real by photographs."
Pg 42 "The photographer is supertourist, an extension of the anthropologist, visiting natives and bringing back news of their exotic doings and strange gear. The photographer is always trying to colonize new experiences or find new ways to look at familiar subjects - to fight against boredom."
"Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. More beautiful, by modern taste." -- how I feel in Brooklyn
For Cartier-Bresson, to take photographs is "to find the structure of the world - to revel in the pure pleasure of form," to disclose that "in all this chaos, there is order."
"The image must exist in the photographer's mind at or before the moment when the negative is exposed...most photographers have always had- with good reason-an almost superstitious confidence in the lucky accident."
"Just to show something, anything, in the photographic view is to show that it is hidden."
"While many people in non-industrialized countries still feel apprehensive when being photographed, divining it to be some kind of trespass, an act of disrespect, a sublimated looting of the personality or the culture, people in industrialized countries seek to have their photographs taken - feel that they are images, and are made real by photographs."
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
The non-fiction mood popped off recently, but Susan Sontag is one of my favourite writers and if you know anything about aesthetics, you know the topic of photography is one that will possibly never be exhausted, as it offers itself to millions of interpretations and representations. Here are just a few: and surprisingly easy to go through as well.
informative
slow-paced
first essay was so good but the rest were kinda mid