Insightful and remarkably candid. His most documentary-appearing pictures (not the most flashy ones) show a very refined grasp of the way meaning embeds itself. But his reasoning that there is no difference between the found and the made is a step too far. To elaborate; our reaction when we find that a photographer like Doisneau had used performers in his Paris street photographs reveals within ourselves an antipathy to feigning reality in photographs. If we had no such amibivalence those images would have precisely the same meaning and effect on us as before we became aware of their true nature but they do not.
lol, the falling boy story is kinda suspicious moment in his talk :D thankfully he didn´t want to capture a gunfight or something as in: "Well, in order to get that picture I first had to disregard any interest in human life and so I found some boys in a poor neighbourhood, they are in the picture bleeding, and I wondered what would have to happen so they would start shooting at each other" lol
I have learned more here than I learned on all of my history of photography module. Thank you very much Mr Wall.
Insightful and remarkably candid. His most documentary-appearing pictures (not the most flashy ones) show a very refined grasp of the way meaning embeds itself. But his reasoning that there is no difference between the found and the made is a step too far. To elaborate; our reaction when we find that a photographer like Doisneau had used performers in his Paris street photographs reveals within ourselves an antipathy to feigning reality in photographs. If we had no such amibivalence those images would have precisely the same meaning and effect on us as before we became aware of their true nature but they do not.
lol, the falling boy story is kinda suspicious moment in his talk :D thankfully he didn´t want to capture a gunfight or something as in: "Well, in order to get that picture I first had to disregard any interest in human life and so I found some boys in a poor neighbourhood, they are in the picture bleeding, and I wondered what would have to happen so they would start shooting at each other" lol