{"id":174,"date":"2008-03-18T16:59:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2010-07-24T20:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T01:08:25","slug":"174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If I knew how to\u2026 &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;If I knew how to make a good photograph, I&#8217;d do it every time.&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; Robert Doisneau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;\u2026an exercise in vigilance; the hope of noticing something which will make me understand more clearly what still resists being understood; what still lies obscured but at least now [is] glimpsed.&#8221; Dan Frank used these words to describe his role as an editor; in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Symposium on Editing, The Threepenny Review, Spring 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These same words describe well the act of photography (when practiced with a degree of seriousness); photographers work in ways similar to editors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click image for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/l1002550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/l1002550.jpg\" alt=\"l1002550.jpg\" width=\"605\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If I knew how to make a good photograph, I&#8217;d do it every time.&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; Robert Doisneau. &#8220;\u2026an exercise in vigilance; the hope of noticing something which will make me understand more clearly what still resists being understood; what still lies obscured but at least now [is] glimpsed.&#8221; Dan Frank used these words to describe his [&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":[3,51,32,27,19,34,17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-events","category-family-and-friends","category-hand-made","category-people","category-photography","category-self-expression","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}