tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post8183919669240446713..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Photography, Journalism, Historyamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-32011024773698588672018-11-03T00:00:01.328-07:002018-11-03T00:00:01.328-07:00The New York Times is certainly not THIS governmen...The New York Times is certainly not THIS government's lapdog.Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15247144582377347587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-14737190707606472012018-11-02T04:30:33.981-07:002018-11-02T04:30:33.981-07:00Hi Andrew,
This is definitely off topic, with re...Hi Andrew, <br /><br />This is definitely off topic, with regards to this post, but here's as good as anywhere to comment. I've been parsing what you have been writing recently regarding creativity, truth etc. against some photos I've shot recently, still lifes, effectively copying some northern European painters. They were taken with specific purposes, namely for advertising our business (a small pub-restaurant, which specialises in craft beer and traditional northern German 'cold' supppers.) <br />There is the subject, there is what is and is not in the frame, but also - what does not apply to documentary photography - a dynamic of what is in front of the camera (arguably a 'static' with a still life), but still something is happening there when you're arranging the thing or things, at least while they exist. (I confess I ate some of the ham and did definitley drink the beer.) While I'm a crap portrait photographer and don't like to comment much on things I'm terrible at, I expect there is also a dynamic between the photographer and the subject. <br />I'm not sure exactly what this thing is. Whether it is creative or not is I think, up for discussion, however. In my case, I don't think it was creative per se, it was more mechanical and reducible, as I was trying to re-create something, with more or less success. I had what I wanted to achieve available (both from memory of viewing some of the originals, and what was on my laptop screen) to compare with the last effort of arrangement and lighting. To provide an analogy, I was translating a work, rather than writing a new text. <br />The interaction between what is in front of the camera and the photographer is only there when some sort of staging is taking place though. I find that interesting. Nigel Robinsonhttp://enjayar.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com