Digital BW, The Print

>> I also gave strict orders to my students that they were
>> not allowed to shoot barns, flowers, bees on flowers, babies, kids
>> with ice cream, puppies, bums, etc. That was MY idea, not his ;-).
 
> Steve, Martin Parr goes further when he teaches. He says that everyone has
> the potential to take thousands of sentimental photos. DONT DO IT!

Yes, but eventually even photos of transvestites playing cribbage under
water may become trite. Isn't the challenge to be able to "speak through
your own voice" with whatever you shoot?

I mean a lot of photographers go to all kinds of exotic places to make their
images, and they can be lovely, nothing wrong with that, but I'm equally
interested in a photo that I can tell on first sight "that's a Keith
Carter", "that's a Ralph Gibson", etc. I love to see what guys like that can
do with puppies and babies.

I think a more powerful exercise would be to have students ONLY photograph
the prosaic but to do so in their own style.

Todd