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“Cameras Were Invented for Inarticulate Photographers Like Me” (medium.com/polarrist)
27 points by bwang29 on May 15, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



"The biggest thing that I think people miss is this: because it’s so much easier to capture images using digital technology, there’s a disconnect in people’s minds about how relatively easy or hard it is to protect, conserve, store, those images for the future… [With film], when you’re done, you stick it in an envelope, stick it in a drawer and it’s safe. Short of fires and floods, it’s gonna be there in 600 years and look just fine. Today, I don’t know that the imagery I have on a hard drive — I don’t know if there’s going to be technology that can read those files 5, 10, 15 years from now, so I have to continually keep backing them up and re-backing them up onto newer and newer media just so people can look at them when I’m dead and gone. Digital is far less archival than film."

Interesting argument. I think most readers will have a different perspective, especially with cloud backup. But there is reassurance in the physical.

"P: Who are some of your favorite photographers? T: Irving Penn, Arnold Newman, Philippe Halsman, Jim Marshall, Max Yavno, Arnold Newman, Joel-Peter Witkin, Ruth Bernhard, Herb Ritts, William Garnett, Joseph Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, and Horst immediately come to mind. There are more."

Some other work to check out in the future.


“Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.”

― Helen Levitt


Great interview.


he seems fairly articulate to me




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