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Every image I take of a stranger is a projection of my own emotions and beliefs upon them. Each image I shoot of a stranger is a self-portrait.
Eric Kim • 82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
Pictorialism, with a small “p” always has been an essential element in the best photographs throughout the medium’s history. And it is still true. It acknowledges that photography is a PICTURE-making process. Pictures are very good at emphasizing feeling; they are very bad at conveying ideas. Ideas need words. If the words or ideas already exist,
... See moreBill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
It is an appearance, or a set of appearances, which has been detached from the place and time in which it first made its appearance and preserved – for a few moments or a few centuries. Every image embodies a way of seeing. Even a photograph. For photographs are not, as is often assumed, a mechanical record. Every time we look at a photograph, we
... See moreJohn Berger • Ways of Seeing
art is a mirror that reflects back the parts of ourselves we’re trying to understand, the truths we already know but can’t quite articulate yet, the person we’re becoming but haven’t fully met, the beliefs and values we hold close to our hearts but still sometimes question.
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