Saturday 22 September 2012

is often not the reason we took the image?

Minor White , the photographer & influential teacher of photography once said that 'photographers frequently photograph better than they know". He was cautioning against placing too much emphasis on what we think we have photographed.White placed the responsibility of interpretation on the viewer rather than the photographer.


This is a paragraph from a very good book by Terry Barrett on criticizing photographs & he is completely right, is it our job as the image maker to say why we took the image or rather the viewers view point as too how they read the image, what do they see in it, is often not the reason we took the image?
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  1. Unknown22 September 2012 at 02:47

    Scott, maybe its for us to have our reasons for the image but to keep them and leave the view to thier own thoughts

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  2. Scott Fowler Photography22 September 2012 at 21:20

    That is surely up to us, it is our image. Everyone will always see something different due to our different ways of life.It doesnt hurt to let the viewer use their own imagination for sure.

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