Photography: the act of pointing
March 21, 2008
Today a wonderful quote from the late John Szarkowski
“One might compare the art of photography to the act of pointing. It must be true that some of us point to more interesting facts, events, circumstances, and configurations than others [...] The talented practitioner of the new discipline would perform with a special grace, sense of timing, narrative sweep, and wit, thus endowing the act not merely with intelligence, but with that quality of formal rigor that identifies a work of art, so that we would be uncertain, when remembering the adventure of the tour, how much our pleasure and sense of enlargement had come from the things pointed to and how much from a pattern created by the pointer.”- John Szarkowski
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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March 26th, 2008 at 8:08 am
This is a great quote… it really resonated for me. I’ve been having a hard time describing my photography lately. My work is not psychological or political, it’s… perceptual. But getting the right words to explain such a sensorial-motivation is tough. But Szarkowski’s idea of pointing rang true. I’ll have to give it much more though.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Glad you liked it Daniel. Best regards!
Miguel