Photographs Not Taken
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009DBUZO8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Perhaps "A BOOK NOT READ" Although, conceptually, the book might prove interesting enough to be worth while, I found myself bored and wanting to abandoned the book altogether. But I stuck it out, hoping to find some tidbits of worthwhile insight to take away from it all. I found none.Being a photographer myself, I have had my moments of photographs "not taken". These moments have been precious as they were moments where I was poised to take the shot, but consciously chose not to, so as not to rob myself of the full experience of the moment. In other words, I found more value in the observation and of the unadulterated moment, than I could ever fe. "What happens to a photo untaken?" according to evaB. OK so if a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a picture untaken worth? This brisk but captivating collection answers that just question. In thoughtful, short vignettes accomplished photographers recall That Unsnapped Moment in their careers or lives. This book reports on how a photo that never happened occupies the imagination, how it is developed by memory, and rendered in writing. There is some magical imagery and sentence-ing in these collections and it's probably magical because it reminds us that any picture that presumes to capture the "now" becomes instantly elegiac (see Instagram, which fetishiz. Stuart Murdoch said Small Simple & Elegant. The production values in this book are delightful, very minimal and spares but eminently readable as a consequence. The essay a short and perfunctory, some soulful and reflective others a tad abstract, I've enjoyed most of them so far, still reading of course, but a nice little book to read in the small quiet times, when you aren't in the moo for a bigger read or don't have the time. I am a little disappointed by the lack of depth in some of the essays, still few photographers are writers, Emmet Gowin being the exception in this book.
This collection provides a unique and original interpretation of the experience of photographing, and allows the reader into a world rarely seen: the image making process itself. In each essay, the photograph has been stripped down to its barest and most primitive form: the idea behind it. Photographs Not Takenfeatures contributions by: Peter Van Agtmael, Dave Anderson, Timothy Archibald, Roger Ballen, Thomas Bangsted, Juliana Beasley, Nina Berman, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Paul D'Amato, Tim Davis, KayLynn Deveney, Doug Dubois, Rian Dundon, Amy Elkins, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Gregory Halpern, Tim Hetherington, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Eirik Johnson, Chris Jordan, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Misty Keasler, Lisa Kereszi, Erika Larsen, Shane Lavalette, Deana Lawson, Joshua Lutz, David Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura McPhee, Michael Meads, Andrew Moore, Ri