early morning readings

Nikon D750  f/4.5  1/1000s  45mm  100 ISO

“The fact that one may misunderstand the content of a picture is of no concern to the picture, which leads its own life independent of our interpretations. For some years the writer thought that the tree in Edouard Boubat’s picture grew on the top of a hill… What he finally realized that the tree stands not against the sky but against a wall, it was a momentary shock. But the picture refused to adapt itself for the sake of the new interpretation. It remained precisely as it had been before. …A picture is what it looks like. ~J Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs

flipped through

The pictures produced [in the 1950’s] were especially useful to the magazines, which were meant to be flipped through rather than lived with, and in which a picture’s first impact was seen as more important than its staying power.

Cited: J Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs, p. 180

shadowsweb

Nikon D750   f/8   1/160 s   300 mm   100 ISO