| For me, photography is about making a photograph, not taking a picture. |
| This is what I mean. Anyone can take a picture. Even a monkey, if given a camera, can take a picture without much difficulty and then you have a feeble representation of the observable world and no one is going to be impressed with that. That kind of representation is easy to produce but it's boring and fails to make any impression. It certainly will not be considered interesting. The process of making a photograph requires the merging of the knowledge of science and the gift of artistry. The science aspects of making a picture can be learned by almost anyone. It involves using a camera, developing chemicals or a printer, ink and paper selection. If you are familiar with a little elementary physics and basic chemistry, some simple math, a touch of mechanical and electrical engineering, then you will have the beginnings of a good understanding of how to make a photograph, ...technically. However, without the gift of artistry you may end up producing only a picture, not a photograph. |
| Making a photograph requires the additional element of artistry and it is the pursuit of artistry that I believe most strongly attracts me to photography. I am excited by chasing perfection, learning, experimenting, interpreting, reaching for that which is just beyond my grasp, failing and then trying again; all in an attempt to transform a misty wisp of a concept into a tangible portrayal capable of expressing my vision in a universally understood language, accessible to everyone, appreciated by some, understood by a few. Gerry Arlen Good - Photographer - "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - E.E. Cummings - |
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