the frame in photography
DESCRIPTION
Kalyan Varma (http://kalyanvarma.net) asked me to give a talk at one of his famed photography workshops on the question of the frame in photography. This is that talk. The narrative of the portraits was only spoken, and not described on the slides to not take away from the emotion of them.TRANSCRIPT
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the
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the world is an assault
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distillessence
focusrebel
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“To quote out of context is the essence of
the photographer's craft.”John Szarowski
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the familiar unfamiliar in the familiar
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the form/content tug
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“Without play, there would be no Picasso”Paul Rand in “Paul Rand : The Play Instinct”
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it is at the limit that magic is witnessed
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objects exist in the worldthe frame changes the world
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the frame changes the worldthe light describes the world
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"All art forms ... are escapist in that each answers some fundamental objection to the world and its limits"Gabriel Winslow-Yost in “Purpose-Driven Life”http://nplusonemag.com/purpose-driven-life
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“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”Paul Strand
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