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"What are you photographing?" is the usual question. Quite often, even after detailing the scene for them and even giving them a look at the ground-glass (geez, it's upside down and in colour!) they still can't SEE what is worth a sheet of 8x10. |
Nope. What it is with me is "What are you taking pictures of?" Answer: "I don't do of."
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...when it comes to seeing, really seeing, photographers are unmatched by anyone else in the visual arts.
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Well, the best lesson I ever had in seeing was in art school, in a drawing class. Harold Jacobs, Cooper Union graduate, a new and I believe transient faculty member at the Portland (Oregon) Art Museum School. He put two eggs on a scoop of white paper inside a window admitting not northlight but similar. He had us draw it with charcoal. He showed us the reflections of the light from the shell of one egg to the shell of the other. I've never lost that. It has been 44 years.