Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can make virtually anything look good. Which means, of course, that she or he can make virtually anything look bad - or look just about any way at all. After all, that is the real work of photography: making things look, deciding how a thing is to appear in the image.
What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a spec… - A. D. Coleman
What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a spec…
- A. D. Coleman
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world… - A. D. Coleman
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world…
Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can … - A. D. Coleman
Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can …
The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs. - A. D. Coleman
The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is … - A. D. Coleman
... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is …
The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes. - A. D. Coleman
The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.
It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known. - A. D. Coleman
It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.
We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That… - A. D. Coleman
We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That…
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