“A picture need not tell a story, and had better not try to, because it can’t.
A story is a sequential thing in time, while a still photograph is a simultaneous thing in space, with no beginning or end. Good pictures seldom illustrate ideas, though they may stimulate ideas. Pictures are visual experiences, complete and sufficient. They don’t say anything: they show things.”
A story is a sequential thing in time, while a still photograph is a simultaneous thing in space, with no beginning or end. Good pictures seldom illustrate ideas, though they may stimulate ideas. Pictures are visual experiences, complete and sufficient. They don’t say anything: they show things.”
These gems of wisdom were intertwined with
lessons on craft in his book “The Art of Black-and-White Enlarging”. by David Vestal, RIP
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