On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:05 PM, Bob W wrote: > This is the piece I'm referring to: > <http://www.billjayonphotography.com/The%20Thing%20Itself.pdf> > >> Hurn & Jay have a lot to say about this question in On Being A >> Photographer. Well worth reading. To summarise, subject matter is >> everything.
Thanks for this, Bob. I didn't know anything about Jay or Hurn. I read the essay, liked it, and went looking to see who this guy was. It's interesting that while he says, as you say, "subject matter is everything," he also acknowledges an important, perhaps necessary, role for the photographer's interests, passions, knowledge, choices, even his/her personality and character. But all that comes into play not by focusing on it, but by focusing on the subject. A lesson for life, maybe: The things that matter are by-products. Yeah, I know, navel-gazing. But it fascinates me. And Bill Jay spent his whole life at it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
