"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.""
Garry Winogrand
Surface, representation, veracity, intent.
Interesting that this quote makes me think about product photography when it comes from one of the giants of street shooting. I'm basically a portrait photographer and the idea put forward by Oscar Wilde in the Picture of Dorian Gray that every portrait is a self portrait has always resonated with me.
It's not the subject that is being represented, the subject is a vehicle for what the photographer wants to express. That's also my interpretation of Winogrand's statement.
If we're honest about that intent we have truthful images, I think that has value when there's generally so little trust in photography.
My own little contribution to truth and beauty, I'm leading workshops in old school analogue photography.
This weekend it's a processing workshop, completely mechanical cameras and developers made ourselves from instant coffee and washing powder. 100% no jiggery pokery.
Workshop >> https://lnkd.in/dVS5G2Ci
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