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I like the one from Victor Hugo, "When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door." From a slightly different...
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The quote of Terry F., 'Capturing a single frame in a moment, I love to do,' makes me think of the writers 100 years ago in Japan who developed the "social sketch" genre (shasei); sort of a verbal...
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I wonder if filters and effects available in postprocessing allow the whole list of early photo processes to be emulated. After seeing earlier pictures (like Brooks Johnson 1989, Photographers...
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Roger Fenton of Crimean War photography renown. I find myself wondering how he'd make use of the Leica Q2 Monochrom if he were able to swap it for his wetplate darkroom carriage and horse. Working...
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Recently I read Susan Sontag (1973) On Photography - there is so much to reflect on, including the way that the 'frozen moment' imposes a tone of elegy onto a subject, instantly turned into past...
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Recently finished reading (1977 edition) "On Photography" essays of Susan Sontag in which she harps on the way that still photos turn present into past, injecting a layer of elegy to the subject...
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LOC started around 2005 with Flickr to bring the Prints and Photos collection into wider circulation. Now the museums, libraries, and archives around the world follow this model. So it makes sense...
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It is sobering to think that many cameras, if somehow there were a kind of "odometer" to record lifetime shutter releases, would only show a usage of a few dozen rolls of film (multiply by 8 or 10x...
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At the start of my search for a camera drone for my limited purposes, I was disheartened to see that many are co-dependent on particular smartphones to communicate with the device: if your model...
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