Starting with art and then setting out to document it would seem like an advantage of sorts, even cheating, but then again, if you do the art justice, THAT takes talent, finesse and empathy. Julius Shulman was just that sort of photographer — he possessed a knowingness and appreciation for the nuances of great architecture. […]
Cropping as an after-thought …
Full-frame versus cropping — to be or not to be. To “be” is to shoot full-frame. “Not to be” would suggest that if you didn’t frame your shot just right when shooting, cropping it afterward is in order to SAVE the shot, hence, you didn’t really get the shot you wanted. Well, that’s the purist […]
Good Humor
Photo Credit: REUTERS Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
FOLK ART
Snapshots are folk art and you can’t discount folk art as an art form. Think of snapshots as today’s Daguerreotypes to one day be collectibles of the future. (Okay — not a great analogy since Polaroids would be a better one.) Point is, with snapshots, families tend to create traditional styles of shooting. While growing […]
go for the OUTRAGEOUS
That phrase has stuck with me ever since a seminar professor explained that it was the thing to do. You should always strive for the OUTRAGEOUS when shooting. Sure, one could argue that that means going for what is sensational — and that, of course, could mean a slam to integrity, a slight to your […]
anthropology
Just as genes are not jeans, so too was Claude Lévi-Strauss of no relation to Levi Strauss. The Associated Press just reported that Claude Lévi-Strauss died at age 100. Age 100 seems somehow fitting and symbolic. In reading about his contributions to anthropology, I am reminded of Edward Steichen‘s Family of Man exhibition. And that, […]
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