Digital BW, The Print

I have been a photographer for 35 years and what you
eloquently said is the reason I'm still doing
it.....Bravo.  Francis Ford
--- Johnny Eades <jeades1@...> wrote:
> 
> I don't feel ego should be any part of photography
> for self-expression. 
> It's the complete loss of ego that enables one to
> express their true 
> feelings (self expression) for the moment of
> revelation that happens on 
> rare instances that the photographer is compelled to
> attempt to express 
> it via a photograph. Visual accomplishment doesn't
> equal self 
> achievement; the moment of realizing that this image
> is important 
> because it portrays the equivalent of my feelings at
> the time. An 
> example I'll offer is while photographing at Atalaya
> (the summer home 
> of Archie Huntington) at Huntington Beach in South
> Carolina, I came 
> across a large room that had a single bench that was
> lit by the sun 
> streaming through a large side window. The rest of
> the room was in ive 
> darkness. I had recently gone through the death of
> my wife and when I 
> saw this image, I knew I had to make it. The lonely
> bench in the large 
> room and lit by the light spoke to me just as
> certainly as if a voice 
> had said it. What it said was "Lonely, but never
> alone" and thankfully 
> I had enough technical ability to capture it as I
> felt it and the 
> resulting print also spoke to me. I had to work on
> the print to enable 
> its voice, but the result was good. I feel that most
> photographers who 
> do this as a serious hobby have self-expression as
> the underlying 
> reason. 
> 
> Your friend in Photography,
> 
> Johnny
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
> "Djon" 
> <westsidemaurice@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > One especially nice thing about commercial work is
> that one doesn't
> > need to involve his ego, he can just do the
> discipline and make
> > pictures. As a result a person can sometimes
> accomplish a lot 
> visually. 
> > 
> > I'm not convinced that most people (or I myself)
> have enough
> > "internal" stuff to make "self expression"
> worthwhile.
> 
> 
> 
> 


		
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