An interview transcript from around 1956, with W. Eugene Smith.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0...=fb-share&_r=0
For me, most interesting was his response to breaking the rules.
An interview transcript from around 1956, with W. Eugene Smith.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0...=fb-share&_r=0
For me, most interesting was his response to breaking the rules.
"It is one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it is another thing to make a portrait of who they are" - Paul Caponigro
Constructive Critique of my photographs is always appreciated
Nikon, etc!
RICK
My Photography
Thanks for the link, Rick. Eugene Smith was one of the truly greats from that era and his candour and biting wit in this interview is refreshing. Nostalgia probably colours my view of that great B&W era of photo journalism, but I really don't see its equal today. The ubiquity of camera phones and the downturn in newspaper sales has seen the sacking of hundreds of photographers from our once great Aussie newspapers, so we will never see photo essays like that again.
Cheers, Don