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Thanks to flysurfer's pointing out A Lesser Photographer's Manifesto, I subscribe to the blog... The latest entry The Lure of Diminishing Returns | A Lesser Photographer is, to me, quite thought provoking.
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See what you think, and it will take you to this article originally in the New York Times: Kwaku Alston's Rebirth in Venice - NYTimes.com
An excerpt below:
Maybe this will help us in The Single In July, as well as in our day to day photographic lives.
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If you ignore what you’re naturally best at, the product will either become boring or, if it makes money, a business. It isn’t art anymore and it isn’t much of a life anymore.
See what you think, and it will take you to this article originally in the New York Times: Kwaku Alston's Rebirth in Venice - NYTimes.com
An excerpt below:
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Maryland, Mr. Alston said he moved a lot as a child. He was introspective and had thought about becoming an illustrator. But when he picked up a camera, shot some frames and developed them, he fell hard.
Kwaku Alston
“It was a process to me that came from my mind and nobody else had a hand in it,” he said. “It was something I became good at.”
Yet after years of commercial success, there was that creative thirst that went unquenched. He decided to take a page from the masters and made himself take a picture a day for no other client but himself. Much of that self-discovery has taken place in Venice, a small community that has been gentrifying rapidly in the decade since he moved there.
Maybe this will help us in The Single In July, as well as in our day to day photographic lives.