How photography demands your presence
Your photos don’t develop until the next morning, so you’re forced to live in the moment — snap and forget. There’s no pressure to get the perfect shot. It’s a focus on authenticity over appearance.
Justin Potts • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Learning to be on the lookout for beautiful things is a way of contesting the relentlessly rationalistic view of the world that surrounds us. Just as we produce thoughts by talking things over, we produce memories by composing them and reflecting. By taking lots of photos you may come to find more things you cherish.
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
On the Usefulness of Photography
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From Window by Masahisa Fukase (1973)
In this series, Fukase photographed his wife heading off to work every morning from his fourth-floor window using a telephoto lens.
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