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Under the Influence |
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06-01-2005 |
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Among the many influences I've had to build my conception of photography, i think that none has had more impact than the LensWork magazine.
It's one of the only photo magazine I know that is only about the images, and not about what camera-lens-film-devlopper-paper combination led to the image. (On a side note, the editor of Lenswork, Brooks Jensen, has an audio blog which seem to touch my photographer's soul everytime...)
And when I came across it, and read the book "On being a Photographer" by David Hurn and Bill Jay, which is offered on the lenswork website, it came as an epiphany that could sound simple, but which didn't come to me easily : the important thing is the image, everything around it, the camera you use, the film, the lens, all of those things are important only up to the point that they influence the image...
Thus ended my "nikon vs canon" days and "rodinal vs microphen" days, and I started concentrating on my images, and I think that they got significantly better for it... |
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