“My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today,” photographer Peter Lindbergh recently reported to “The New York Times” in regard to digital retouching. He added, “Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.”
With this sentiment, Lindbergh brings the “too much or too little” arguments about retouching to an important level of social concern relating to one’s sense of identity. This is a lot more interesting than Continue reading “On Heartless Retouching”
Tags: American Society of Magazine Editors, ASME, Beauty Photography, Commercial Photography, Eric Wilson, Fashion, Peter Lindbergh, Photography, Photoshop It, Postproduction, Retouching, Style, The New York Times, The Sociology of Photography
Martin Santander hardly ever carries a camera. Chase Jarvis almost always does. Both are professional photographers and both feel strongly that their camera-carrying habits positively benefit their image making—and their lives.
How often we carry our cameras and how the action affects our work and lives is a critical, if often oversimplified issue to consider. Unfortunately, the “To carry or not to carry” discussion seems mostly limited to a few well known photographers insisting that other photographer should always carry their cameras. (I’ve noticed that these photographers often don’t have their own cameras with them when giving this advice!).
The always-carry advice seems like a no-brainer, with the advantages pretty obvious. But what about the disadvantages? In her pivotal, thought provoking book On Photography, Susan Sontag seems to suggest Continue reading “Always Carry Your Camera! – or Not?”
Tags: Camera, Chase Jarvis, Chris Salvo, Martin Santander, On Photography, Photography, Susan Sontag, “5 Reasons It’s Good To Always Carry A Camera"
