On 11-01-25 8:57 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
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.
Despite this, I've never seen an exhibition of photographers navels.
This could be a unique and fruitful subject area, Eric. :-)
It is an excellent essay, and very interesting and relevant. Other than
the specific references to film, it reads like it was written yesterday.
-bmw
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