Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen'. The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events (Ansel Adams)

Ansel Adams in 1930 had been training to become a concert pianist while considering a career as a photographer. He decided, after seeing the photographs by Paul Strand, that "the camera, not the piano, would shape [his] destiny". His mother and aunt both pleaded, "Do not give up the piano! The camera cannot express the human soul!" To which Adams replied: "The camera cannot, but the photographer can”

Friday, May 13, 2011

The Literature of Light

Photography is essentially analogous to literature and speech and it covers about the same range from the depths of banality of casual greetings to the heights of the best poetry or prose (Ralph Evans)


8 comments:

Klaudia J said...

Great work, EDU - strong dark mood, composition, B/W and wonderful women presences ... ;) , posielam ti krasny pozdrav a dakujem, ahoj K

elena said...

davvero uno splendido ritratto.ciao

edSELVA said...

Un altre gran enquadrament dels teus! M'agrada lo 'fresca' que és la imatge!

Anna Prat said...

M'agrada el fons tant negre per aquesta fotografia, fa que la vista vagi directament a l'expressió de la noia. La manera com li han quedat els cabells i els llavis, fan que la foto tingui aquella empremta "Edu Crisipi"!

BLUEMOUNTAINS said...

Una vez más... Una gran belleza en su simplicidad. Felicidades de nuevo Crispi.
Bluemountains

Jordi Joan said...

Pensava que havia comentat la foto.....pots penalitzar-me per haver-me saltat..... aquesta meravella !!!

Alfredo Oliva said...

Excelente retrato, con buena utilización del espacio negativa.
Gran trabajo.
Un saludo

Klaus said...

intersanter Gesichtsausdruck, gut eingefangen!