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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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Remember When?

SOMETIMES WHAT WE RESPOND TO in a photograph isn’t as much a matter of artifice as we would like to think. A photograph of Marilyn Monroe may not be well-composed or well-timed, but we respond all the same because, well, Marilyn Monroe. Of course, we know that the photograph could be more cleverly composed, that there are better photographs of Marilyn out there, but it’s irrelevant because we aren’t, in that moment, really looking at the photograph. And we’re not really looking at Marilyn.

We’re looking at memory.

Many of the best photographs we make will be much more than the sum of their parts. They will be more than the lines and the moments and the colours, though of course these all have their part in making the photograph ...

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