(…) Malcolm Browne, who as AP’s Saigon Bureau chief made the memorable 1963 picture of a burning Buddhist monk, wrote from Buenos Aires in response to my plea, “I’ll be happy to start shooting again”. But at the same time, James Feron wrote from Warsaw, “Using a camera is one of the quickiest ways to get in trouble around here”.

John G. Morris - Get the Picture

Na A Photo Editor rozwinęła się dyskusja czy w erze “łatwej” fotografii cyfrowej szeroko pojęty profesjonalizm fotografa potrafi zastąpić talent. Warto poczytać, a ja tutaj przytoczę jedną z przytoczonych definicji, która mi wyjątkowo przypadła do gustu:

Being professional is when you don’t suck on a regular basis.

The photographer was set in his ways. A traditionalist, he did not have any faith in digital cameras, no matter how many millions of pixels they were capable of producing today. To him, half the pleasure of photography was working in a darkroom bringing pictures manually to life. He disliked the immediacy of digital cameras–the way you could see a shot seconds after taking it. At heart photography should have a certain degree of mystery in it, something ineffable and elusive, which was why he liked being in a darkroom developing pictures. It was a hands- on process you could not measure or ever replicate exactly. The photograph slowly emerging in its chemical bath was like a woman undressing in front of you–slowly slowly everything was revealed.

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The problem with doing nothing, is that you never know when you’re finished.

Henry Geldzahler o definicji ‘dobrego zdjęcia’:

The first is memorability; if you remember a work, if its forms cohere in your memory, or better still, if the works calls itself to mind like a melody in an opera, and you feel
you must return to view it again, it might well be good.

Second, if there is a narrative, an unfolding in your relation to the work; if, on subsequent viewings, it reveals more, suggests more, it is a work that you will continue to live
with, whether or not ownership is a practical possibility.