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Camera Position 193 : Is It Art?

As photographers, we know that there is a fairly wide range of options available to us that change what was to what we show the world in our images. Every photograph is a composite of the choices we make as the person who eventually presents the image. Every photograph is an interpretation of the way the world really looks.

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Bevagna, Umbria, 2016
Bevagna, Umbria, 2016 (might be art)

Camera Position 192 : John Berger, Looking and Seeing

An early influence on my ways of thinking about photography on a deeper level was the great writer John Berger.  A poet, novelist, artist screenwriter and more, Berger,  born in 1926, and died just a few weeks ago, in January of 2017 at the age of 90. A read of Berger’s work gives great insight into what meaning we derive from looking, seeing and photographing.

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About Looking by John Berger
About Looking by John Berger

Camera Position 191 : Walt Whitman, Poetry and Photography

Walt Whitman’s poems in his opus Leaves of Grass mirror the actions of the photographer by beginning with facts and transforming those facts into ideas. I explore how both photography and Whitman’s poetry use simple language to convey complex ideas, giving any object or experience new importance by recording it on a previously blank page.

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Leaves of Grass - 1856 Edition, Frontispiece and Title
Leaves of Grass – 1856 Edition, Frontispiece and Title

Camera Position 190 : Watching Photographers Photograph

“You can observe a lot just by watching.” – Yogi Berra

I like to see photographers out in the world and watch them photograph. Observing how photographers photograph can be a great aid in helping us make better, more informed, more personal photographs.

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There are still a few spaces left in 2 of my Italy Photography Workshops for 2017:

Colonnata, Tuscany, 2016 - on the itinerary for the 2017 Tuscany Photo Workshop
Colonnata, Tuscany, 2016 – on the itinerary for the 2017 Tuscany Photo Workshop

Camera Position 189 : Cultivate The Itch, Not The Scratch

What drives and motivates photographers to do the work they do? I think that our unifying motivation is curiosity – an unrelenting, never-ending curiosity – an “itch” to know more about something and to learn about that thing through photographing it.

I was prompted to think about how we should cultivate the itch – our curiosity – and not the scratch by this quote from photographer Sabastião Salgado:

“If you’re young and have the time, go and study. Study anthropology, sociology, economy, geopolitics. Study so that you’re actually able to understand what you’re photographing. What you can photograph and what you should photograph.”

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Steps, Medici Chapel, Florence, 2016 - Photograph by Jeff Curto
Steps, Medici Chapel, Florence, 2016 – Photograph by Jeff Curto