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The Soul of the Camera
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The Soul of the Camera

by David duChemin
June 2017
Beginner
288 pages
4h 25m
English
Rocky Nook
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A Willingness to Interpret

THE PREVIOUS ESSAY WAS ABOUT LANGUAGE; this one is about saying something and having the courage to have an opinion. To express that opinion. And to ask questions.

The assumption that photography gives us a unique set of visual language tools is meaningless without a willingness to use them. Without a human heart and a mind that are willing to say something, to take risks with our choices, or to express something worthwhile, all the language in the world amounts to nothing. So it’s truly unfortunate that early in the craft of photography we became overburdened with the notion—the expectation—that the camera never lies. It’s unfortunate because it suggests an objectivity that was never there, and more so because, having ...

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