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I mean the American Method is still running round in photographic circles as obsession with corner sharpness as a marker of self seriousness…and that’s where the book starts.
If I had an unmet need, it is the entirety American focus of the book leaves me a bit blind to the bigger picture. What was it like, I wonder, in Japan?
But then again, good books should raise new questions because new questions are the mark of learning. Beil’s book certainly feels like a potentially “important book” on US photographic history to me. YMMV.
Talking about what good and bad means in photography always reminds me of Miroslav Tichý, who said "if you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world", and took terrible but strangely brilliant photos with homemade cameras: https://flashbak.com/photographs-by-the-perverted-flaneur-mi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD
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I frequently see people say online that they "took a selfie of" something else these days. This language really bothers me.
I took a self-portrait of... It's people not thinking through what they are saying and rather relying on stock phrases to relay information.
You can see this in other common phrases.
Take "miles per hour" for example. I've met plenty of people who can't figure out how long it would take to get from A to B at X mph. They'll deliberate over how they know from running on their treadmill that they run (on average) at 8 mph, and they recall that it usually takes them Y minutes to run Z miles, and then they factor in the diameter of their car's wheels (because surely a car with larger wheels gets there faster for the same mph vs a car with smaller wheels), and finally sprinkle in a bit of multiplication to arrive at their best guestimate.
That is, plenty of people don't realize that "per" means "for each", and that it's not some singular word "milesperhour", but a phrase meaning "miles traveled for every hour spent travelling".
Other fun phrases thrown around without understanding (or with similar words mistakenly swapped in):
Miles per gallon.
For all intensive purposes.
Nip it in the butt.
Bone apple tea.
The example of a selfie is in fact, not a selfie.
I frequently see people say online that they "took a selfie of" something else these days. This language really bothers me.
Talking about what good and bad means in photography always reminds me of Miroslav Tichý, who said "if you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world", and took terrible but strangely brilliant photos with homemade cameras: https://flashbak.com/photographs-by-the-perverted-flaneur-mi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD
The example of a selfie is in fact, not a selfie.
I frequently see people say online that they "took a selfie of" something else these days. This language really bothers me.
(Ha, you expected me to write about a problem in how people use language, got ya :-)
The example of a selfie is in fact, not a selfie.
The example of a selfie is in fact, not a selfie.
It’s how I am supposed to picture myself to make a good selfie…and also how selfies are cast as shallow to make them easy to dismiss.
Even though Ansel Adams’ self portraits will hang on gallery walls as dearly priced artifacts.
The example of a selfie is in fact, not a selfie.
It's a picture of people taking a selfie. I think that communicates what a selfie is better than an actual selfie.
That could mean "this image is an example of a selfie" (which is false). Alternatively it could mean "this image shows an example of a selfie being taken" (which is true).
