greatleapsideways:“Gifted photographers, learning from the successes of their predecesso
greatleapsideways: “Gifted photographers, learning from the successes of their predecessors, quickly acquire the ability to recognize and anticipate certain aspects of subject matter, situation, perspective, and quality of light that might produce effective pictures. Original photographers enlarge this shared sense of possibilities by discovering new patterns of facts that will serve as metaphors for their intentions. The continuing, cumulative insights of these exceptional artists have formed and reformed photography’s tradition: a new pictorial vocabulary, based on the specific, the fragmentary, the elliptical, the ephemeral, and the provisional. This new tradition has revised our sense of what in the world is meaningful and our understanding of how the meaningful can be described.” — John Szarkowski, William Eggleston’s Guide (1976). Photographs by Jason Fulford, from Crushed and Raising Frogs for $$$. -- source link