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  • A picture is always in the past

    A Picture is Always in The Past ”I am looking at eyes that looked at the Emperor” These are Roland Barthes’s words used to describe his experience while looking at a photograph of Napoleon’s brother Jerome. In Camera Lucida the French critic and semiotician analyzed the photographic medium from its very core. The overall project of…

  • On The Photographer’s Relationship to Here and Now

    On The Photographer’s Relationship to Here and Now Seeing is at the core of an image maker’s craft. The American modern photographer Edward Weston addressed this topic in his Seeing photographically essay (1943). According to Weston, seeing photographically means “learning to see the subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools (of the…

  • Le Moment Decisif – Photographing in the present, being in the present.

    The Present Moment – ” Le Moment decisif” The Decisive Moment “In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.” Henri Cartier-Bresson                              Image source: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/98333 One cannot talk about time in photography without mentioning Henri Cartier-Bresson, who has coined the term “Le moment…

  • Art as a process, or as a product?

    Art as a process, or as a product   Image source: https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/originalcopy/intro05.html What is art? What is art? This is a difficult question to which you seemingly can’t offer an ultimate response. Maybe it would be no beauty without the struggle to answer such question, maybe art would lose its power or it wouldn’t be…