Monday, December 30, 2013

the photographic gesture

What I want to do here is to investigate the actions that go into making a photograph, because some viewers still seem to harbor the notion that photographs are machine-made objects whose only variables are matters of luck—being in the right place at the right time with the right machine.  Looking at and even enjoying photographs without understanding their creation is something like looking at all the people in the world as gifts of the mythical stork.  We see them clearly but we have a completely wrong interpretation of their genesis and therefore of life in general