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I hope to continue much of what I was writing about in my previous blog, scholarssurvival.blogspot.com But now in a more regular weekly or daily column, with posts no more than 1000 words, and likely 750. Let us begin.
MK
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On My Mind VII
Photographing Literal description, or the illusion of literal description, is what the tools and materials of still photography do better than any other graphic medium. A still photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how a camera saw a piece of time and space. … photographing [is] a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject by describing it as it is. (Garry Winogrand [i] ) Get closer, keep moving! The New York Times ’ Bill Cunningham’s philosophy, adapted for MK: I am not a photographer, I am a scholar who writes with pictures (and some words). Cunningham lets the streets talk to him. He goes out for several days and sees the story emerge. Walker Evans: “you want [your work] to commence from life, and that’s in the street now.” [ii] Here was a whole world finely documented down to the last pocketbook and pocket square. No amount of interviewing cou...
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