Photography
You can't expect your subjects to open up to you if you don't open up to them.
Eric Kim • 82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
You don’t want to make your photos too obvious. You want the viewer to work hard to come up with his or her own interpretation of reality. You do this by adding mystery and removing context from your images:
Eric Kim • 82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
- Beware of these two fallacies of photographic appreciation: 1) You like a photograph because you think/have been told that it is good. 2) You think a photograph is good because you like it.
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
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instagram.comEvery 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
I heard of an exercise used in a writing workshop that involved imagining a photograph so personal that we couldn’t show it to anyone. What would it be? That’s the level of exposure we’re aiming for.
DBC Pierre • Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It
“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
When photographs were first invented, people thought of them like paintings. There was nothing else to compare them to. Thus, subjects in photos copied subjects in paintings. And since people sitting for portraits couldn’t hold a smile for the many hours the painting took, they adopted a serious look. Subjects in photos adopted the same look.