He explains everything quite clearly. Photography is not meant to be pushed or to be turn into an assignment. Photography can easily be influenced and accounted for a self representation, this idea makes photography wonderful. The author was influenced by family and took simple pictures which he thought of as pastimes such as: sunlight on water or the weave of the porch screen and the openings and closings of those doors. He took pictures of family because that’s what he loved. When we do what we love, nothing can go wrong.
I like the fact that the author explained that when we take pictures it becomes a source of identity. In a way he is right. We take pictures because we like the image. WE. Ourselves. Us. Me. I. This is a time to see and reflect on memories or create them with a photo. Through other influences he created work he liked. It’s almost as if he was taking pieces of copies and gluing them together to make an original.
Your right when we take pictures of things that we love nothing can go wrong. I also liked how he took pictures of ordinary things like the screen weave things that we just take for granted but when looked at closely they are art in themselves
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