Thanks. ^_^ I think that's often the case with famous photographs. Photographers seem to receed into the background, though people remember the images (many photographers also tend to live into a ripe old age, according to my art history lessons — I'm guessing the chemicals preserve them? :P). Ms. Arbus is one of my favourites.
Heheh. I can see that. Do not trust art photographers! They will use that one frame that makes you look interesting and significant, but terrible from the standards of conventional beauty. They do it every time. Arbus's photo of the boy with the toy hand grenade is another example of that. If you search, you can find her contact sheet for that shoot, and he looks like a normal boy, but in that one frame he looks sinister and insane. Photographers are notorious liars, yet people read photographic images as inherently truthful. It's a very interesting medium that way.
I took a course in applied philosophy in university, with the focus being on photography. It was probably my favourite course during my time there, combining two of my favourite subjects. I remember speaking up a lot in class (to the point that someone remembered me years later as "that girl who had really insightful comments" *beams*) and writing a really tight paper comparing two very different, yet formally similar, photographers. Those were good times.
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Date: 2010-06-02 11:00 am (UTC)Heheh. I can see that. Do not trust art photographers! They will use that one frame that makes you look interesting and significant, but terrible from the standards of conventional beauty. They do it every time. Arbus's photo of the boy with the toy hand grenade is another example of that. If you search, you can find her contact sheet for that shoot, and he looks like a normal boy, but in that one frame he looks sinister and insane. Photographers are notorious liars, yet people read photographic images as inherently truthful. It's a very interesting medium that way.
I took a course in applied philosophy in university, with the focus being on photography. It was probably my favourite course during my time there, combining two of my favourite subjects. I remember speaking up a lot in class (to the point that someone remembered me years later as "that girl who had really insightful comments" *beams*) and writing a really tight paper comparing two very different, yet formally similar, photographers. Those were good times.