Blinded by the light: the violence of flash photography
Susan Sontag was deliberately provocative when she coupled photography with violence. There is, she wrote in the essay ‘In Plato’s Cave’ (1977), ‘something predatory in the act of taking a picture’. She pointed out that we speak casually about ‘loading’ and ‘aiming’ a camera: ‘Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder.’ Sontag knew that she was using hyperbole, prodding her readers to consider the seizing of someone else’s identity that is implicit in each portrait that is shot.
But it is decidedly less of an exaggeration to couple violence with one particular photographic technology: flash. From the earliest decades of flash photography... {read more}
a wonderful night with some awesome people, celebrating Mark's departure from the mainland to the big island.
hawaii is fortunate to have gained the presence of this one, he will definitely be missed by many back here in SD.
23rd floor balcony of a high rise condo overlooking san diego bay... not a bad view 2.21.18
I know nobody is going to enjoy this post as much as I do (except for maybe Andrea)... but this is Cosmo loving the camera and the camera loving him back. #supermodel
set up a temporary office today at an open air table at StreetCar Merchants on 30th and Lincoln. I had some green tea while getting some work done while also snapping passers by.
ps - if you enjoy green tea as much as i do, don't ever order it at StreetCar Merchants
you're welcome
northpark, san diego, ca | 2.13.18
this is iverson, aka iversoné, aka trashcat, and aka dumptruck. His hobbies include squeaking instead of meowing, making uncomfortably long eye contact, grooming only his front right paw, and a fascination with the washing machine while either in the spin cycle or draining. He's pretty cute in my personal opinion and this is him on top of said washing machine last night trying to figure out what is going in there.
leucadia, ca 2.12.18
Masters of Photography
This is a really well put together, comprehensive list of photography masters posted on Eric Kim Photography. The page has links to related articles, quotes and examples of work all compiled by Eric Kim.
I bookmarked this page a while ago and have used it since then as reference point as well as a source of inspiration. Eric has really done a good job compiling and editing this list and it is definitely worth spending a few hours (or weeks) on.
Check out the page on Sergio Larrain,..it's one of my personal favorites.
“Photography is a walk alone in the universe…The conventional world veils your vision, for photography you have to find a way to remove the veil.” – Sergio Larrain
link - Masters of Photography
