Camera Obscura
March 2012
6 posts
“The big problem for photography is the machine called ‘Camera’. Billions of snaps are churned out, most worth less than the chemicals and paper that created them. This relatively new and brilliant invention has been brutalised by the fumbling fingers and unfocused eyes of the ordinary man. Politicans, pathologists, parents, paparazzi – everyone’s a photographer.
And now photography lies bleeding at the feet of Art, and won’t get up until 67 billion ‘ordinary users’ are rounded up and stripped of their accessories.” —Bob Carlos Clarke
And now photography lies bleeding at the feet of Art, and won’t get up until 67 billion ‘ordinary users’ are rounded up and stripped of their accessories.” —Bob Carlos Clarke
“Identify your objectives. Be clear in your mind what you want to say about the subject. Is it beautiful? Is it menacing? Don’t shoot unless you know what the message of your picture is going to be.”
—Bob Carlos Clarke
“I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense …symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.”
—Richard Avedon
“I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.”
—Richard Avedon
