Review of 'Photographers on Photography' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is a book of photographic inspiration. Each photographer has their own approach to photography and each has something to say about what inspires them. For the aspiring photographer this means that whatever style captures your imagination, you'll find that someone has something helpful to say.
I particularly liked
“I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.”
— Saul Leiter
For its simplicity
I also appreciated what Henry Carroll said at the end of the book
"Yet if we think about it, photography hasn’t changed all that much, because its most magical quality, that thing separating it from all other art forms, remains the same: whether taken on film or with a phone, whether hanging in a gallery or saved on a computer, a photograph is captured light. For that reason, the …
This is a book of photographic inspiration. Each photographer has their own approach to photography and each has something to say about what inspires them. For the aspiring photographer this means that whatever style captures your imagination, you'll find that someone has something helpful to say.
I particularly liked
“I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.”
— Saul Leiter
For its simplicity
I also appreciated what Henry Carroll said at the end of the book
"Yet if we think about it, photography hasn’t changed all that much, because its most magical quality, that thing separating it from all other art forms, remains the same: whether taken on film or with a phone, whether hanging in a gallery or saved on a computer, a photograph is captured light. For that reason, the ghost of photography’s enigmatic origins will continue to haunt every film grain, every pixel and every line of code for a long time to come."
The idea that all photographs are made from light reflected from their subject makes for an immediate connection with the subject and the photographer, regardess of then the photograph was taken.