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How about Susan Sontag in 2017?
2017-10-21 16:30:40 UTC
In her famous book, “On photography”, Susan Sontag explains that a photographer ought to be aware of the fact that he or she, in a way, immortalizes the people portrayed
The image will exist forever and will not change. What does change is the context in which the photograph is…
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WeeGee exposition in Barcelona
2017-07-26 17:40:00 UTC
Today I went to a photography exposition of WeeGee at Foto Colectania in Barcelona
WeeGee was an American photographer who photographed street scenes at night in New York in the 1940ies. While looking at the superb prints we discussed the question whether he may have staged some scenes.
In my…
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How does the photographer prepare for a wedding?
2017-06-18 13:12:00 UTC
Apart from the technical issues like equipment, available light in the different venues, the program during the day et cetera, there is, in my opinion, a much more important question: How am I going to capture the couple and their story so that they and their families will recognise themselves…
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When is an image a photograph?
2017-05-11 08:46:00 UTC
Nowadays we look at our personal images on our computers, tablets and mobile phones. We print occasionally a favorite one and put it on the wall in a nice frame
Before the digital era we would look at our photos in a printed form and keep them in a box…
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Why should wedding photography be documentary photography ?
2017-04-26 09:01:00 UTC
Do you want the story of your marriage day told in images or a mere visual report of events on the day?
Photography has become an enormous and influential medium; we are all photographers and with our smartphones we continuously take pictures which we upload to the social media. Photography…