Down the Rabbit Hole - Week 14
Sources and Resources: Updated throughout the week
More Tim Carpenter
You'll find plenty mentions of Carpenter here on the site, for good reason: his work and ideas have really pushed harder to think about my own. This video is not new, but somehow I just found it and it's a great introduction to his history and thinking:
Aside from his book find his writing at TIS Books.
Janelle Lynch on Making a Good Photograph
When she published this article last year, I immediately identified with her sensibility, and now I'm taking a course with her that's been delightful and impactful on my work. While it's written in a simple list form, there's lots there to think about. Here's a selection:
Remember Robert Capa’s dictum, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” But don’t always follow it. Step back and see what distance enables—literally and figuratively. Then, consider the metaphor—whether intended or not—in Capa’s words and ask, “Do you care about what you’re photographing—are you arrested by it, seized—regardless of what it is?”
Janelle Lynch
Revisiting the Zone System
One reason I like large format photography is that it causes you to think about all the fundamentals of photography, even to the point of exposing and developing on an image-by-image basis. I'm my Large Format Photography class we're discussing the importance of exposure and discussing the Ansel Adams' Zone System. Once again, I return to Bruce Barnbaum's discussion of exposure in his book The Art of Photography, where he devotes several chapters on thinking and visualizing your image, then exposing, developing, and printing. He also has a chapter on what he loosely refers to as “The Digital Zone System” (hint: it refers to judiciously using the histogram). One of the most used books I own!
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