Alexey Brodovitch on photography
Once again I flip through The Education of a Photographer, by Charles Traub et al, and read Alexey Brodovitch’s refreshing ideas about photography. Among them:
- What is good today is a cliché tomorrow.
- The photographer’s job is to fight boredom.
- … by surprising.
- Photos should stimulate thinking and be interesting/intriguing.
- Avoid clichés.
- Like established photographers, don’t fall into the trap of “found approval” (sticking with the style you became known for, and not developing).
- Develop constantly. Constantly develop a new vocabulary.
- Make progress, don’t get stuck.
- Any photographic technique is allowed as long as it helps you. Not cropping may have been fine for Cartier-Bresson, but don’t let that stop you from nicely cropping your photos yourself.
- Instead, crop your photos in different ways as an exercise in improving your images.
- It is the end result that matters, not how you got there.
- There are two levels of viewing: at the time of taking the picture, and later while editing the images.
- Always experiment.
Sagrada Família
In juni waren we in Barcelona en bezochten we de Sagrada Família. Een imposant bouwwerk natuurlijk. Maar net zo interessant in het publiek in en om de basiliek. Een gekkenhuis van toeristen, gidsen en verkopers, al vanaf vrij vroeg op de dag. De Sagrada Família is een heel erg verticaal object; de mensen schuifelen met het hoofd in de nek rond.





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