{"id":4425,"date":"2010-11-30T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2010-11-30T18:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:25:29","slug":"what-do-things-look-like-photographed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=4425","title":{"rendered":"What do people, places and things look like &#8211; photographed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m always amazed when people look at photographs of themselves and say things like, &#8220;I look old and fat\u2026&#8221; or &#8220;I look awful\u2026&#8221; I look at the same photograph and think, &#8220;I&#8217;ve managed to capture your beauty.&#8221; It makes me wonder what they see in the mirror. Garry Winogrand said, &#8220;I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.&#8221; It would seem that many people do not want to know what they &#8220;look like.&#8221; Every now and again, mostly while checking the light for some other photograph, I too wonder what I look like photographed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1006779.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4426\" title=\"L1006779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1006779.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1006779.jpg 917w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1006779-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1006779-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1006779-733x1024.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always amazed when people look at photographs of themselves and say things like, &#8220;I look old and fat\u2026&#8221; or &#8220;I look awful\u2026&#8221; I look at the same photograph and think, &#8220;I&#8217;ve managed to capture your beauty.&#8221; It makes me wonder what they see in the mirror. Garry Winogrand said, &#8220;I photograph to find out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,65,19,34,17,35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-gear","category-hand-made","category-people","category-photography","category-portraits","category-self-expression","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}