{"id":1164,"date":"2009-04-23T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2010-07-24T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T19:40:48","slug":"point-of-view-candid-casual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Point of view? Candid? Casual?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Photographers may be concerned, conceptual, confrontational, candid, casual, constructing, but what is important is that they have a point of view.”<\/span> –\u00a0John Loengard<\/em><\/span>, Pictures under discussion by John Loengard<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“Taking photographs, taking candid photographs, means that the photographer is an invisible man. Whereas there is still a feeling that in having a photograph taken there is loss of face: something of the soul is gone.”<\/span> –\u00a0Bruce Davidson<\/em><\/span> – <\/em>talking on Beautiful Beautiful, a BBC film shown on 5 October 1969 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1970, p. 41]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“My pictures are not escapes from reality, but a contemplation of reality, so that I can experience life in a deeper way.”<\/span> –\u00a0Bruce Davidson<\/em><\/span> – <\/em>1968 [cited in: Creative Camera April 1970, p. 104]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Grandfather’s point of view
\nafter applying scissors and pencil
\nto paper
\n(click image for larger view)<\/p>\n

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