akjack wrote:Better yet...see above !
You know jack, one of the things i love most is collecting photography books. I'll spend hours going to various used book stores looking for books
Well i found "my maryland" such finds make all the walking worth while
Pictorial work is not really my genre. but i do think that Bodines work captures the love that one man can have for a place. It's not just about pretty pictures, pretty pictures are not too taxing. It's about how you feel about a place and its people. Actually reminds me of Frank Hurleys later work, when he became too old for war photography and just travelled Australia taking pictorials. Hurley was the most important war photographer of the first world war. Everybody knows Capa, but it's rare that i ever see a discussion on Hurley
I love simple, honest photography. Fashion photography leaves me cold 99 times out of 100, so does most studio work. By simple i mean making it look simple, and that's not simple at all. If anybody ever looks at a photograph and thinks "Christ, why didn't i see that" it's because they've been shown what's staring them right in the face. The only real way to remind us of lifes value is to remind us that beauty is all around us if we just open our eyes to it. It's not about what things look like, it's about how you see them.
It's been said that there are two types of photographers. Those that see what they believe and those that believe what they see. The latter are in danger of making photo records and it's those people that tend to believe that good photography is easy.
I have no interest at all about how much somebody makes out photography. I just care about their photographs; i'll always champion a good photographer
http://chuckkimmerle.com/
Now jack, you seem to have calmed a little since your first visit and i hope that continues
Keep shooting
Sean
What uses having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling? -
W. Eugene Smith