Sometimes inertia gets the best of us and inertia was responsible for Camera Position’s absence these last few months. And photography can be like that, as well. This is the story of how one picture helped get me moving on a beautiful day in Rome and that same picture helped get me moving on talking about photography here on Camera Position.
Camera position and camera distance… are they the same thing? As we position the camera, are we also thinking about how we position ourselves relative to the subject? By looking at work by August Sander, the Bechers, Andreas Gursky, Tina Barney and Jessica Todd Harper, we examine ideas about how we distance ourselves from a subject.
In this, the second of a two-part “desert island photograph” project, we cover more Camera Position listeners describing that one image that they’d take with them for visual sustenance if they were stranded on a desert island.
I had the great pleasure of being an interview guest on Paul Giguere’s great podcast “Thoughts on Photography.” We talked about all sorts of topics, concentrating on the education of a photographer, both formally and informally. We also talked about my LensWork Folio and how that came to be.
Take a listen and check out the rest of Paul’s episodes; he’s got a great podcast. Thanks to Paul for having me on!
Back in Camera Position #83, I asked Camera Position listeners to pick their one “desert island photograph;” that one image that they’d take with them for visual sustenance if they were stranded on a desert island. This episode shares the first few of those responses; others will follow in the next episode. Thanks to those of you who submitted!