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The Heart of the Photograph
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The Heart of the Photograph

by David Duchemin
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
4h 19m
English
Rocky Nook
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Where Does the Eye Go?

EVERY ELEMENT IN THE FRAME pulls the eye to one degree or another. If we’ve been aware and intentional about where those elements are placed, then the eye of the reader has a journey ahead. Where the eye goes, how it gets there, and in what order all have an effect on how we read the photograph. And as much as we talk about where the eye goes, it is more a matter of where the mind goes; specifically, to what is our attention drawn?

As far as I can tell, it was my friend and photographer John Paul Caponigro who said, “There is a vast difference between focusing the lens and focusing our attention.” If I’m wrong about that, then it is certainly the kind of thing he might have said, and the kind of thing I would nod my ...

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