“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” ~Richard Avedon
This quote made me realize that pictures are not depicting what the model or persons being photographed it's representing the photographer themselves. It's about the work of the photographer and the person standing there is more of a prop than anything else. What is the photographer attempting to portray through his models and through his work rather than what the person pictured is trying to portray?
Blog Prompt #9
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams
A photograph isn't just the clicking of a button. It's a process, it's time consuming and long and requires more hard-work than one really understands. A photographer wants to display their work with pride and pride is only achieved when hard-work and time is placed into a photograph. Clicking a button is a step in taking a photograph and you construct and make the scene in which this photograph will be taken! Editing is also a major part of photographs and without the editing, the lighting, the models, the time, the work and everything else there would be no photographs in this world.
Blog Prompt #10
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.” ~John Berger
There are a lot of points to address in this quote. First of all I completely agree that a photograph is much more objective than a painting. A painting is artwork and a display through the eyes of the beholder. A photograph on the other hand is a true representation of real life. While yes editing may take place and a scene may be set-up, a photograph cannot change and will not change what is being pictured. A picture will stand the test of time and will never change. While a painting is through the eyes and hands of the artist this results in the artist putting a lot of what he/she thinks, morals, ideals. A painting is a representation of the artist. While a picture is a representation of what real life is and cannot be altered. Those viewing a photograph can decide for him or herself what this means the them and what he believes the picture to be because it's not through the artists subjective eye.
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