Henri Cartier-Bresson
“there is an almost magical split-second in which events in the world – interactions between people, movement, light, and form – combine in perfect visual harmony.”
For my final story, I want to make the entire set of photos look very whimsical. My subject is the story of baking. So there will be moments that can go by that I will never have the opportunity to capture again because baking is a very linear process, there are a beginning and an end. No going back. To capture the whimsy I need to be ready to capture those moments of perfect light and perfect composition any second.
Susan Sontag
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People these days feel the need to photograph everything – it’s totally ruining our experience of life.”
Related to my final in a very opposing way. I think in this section of text the idea is that people document too much, but I don’t agree with this. A photograph is two parts, what you are seeing, and what the photographer is experiencing. So my photos of the baking I’m going to be doing with just look like bright colorful photos of the process of baking and such, but what is behind the photos is my years of experience baking. The joy that baking brings me.
Aaron Siskind
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
Like I said in the passage above, I use photography to remember the backstory of a situation, rather than just what you are seeing in the photo.
Ansel Adams
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
I have parallel beliefs about what Adams is saying here. For me, the creative process is very long and very thought out. There are those “perfect moments” but many times those perfect moments really need to be thought of and composed correctly.
Nicole Ginoni
Her photography inspired my final project significantly because of the contrast and composition but also because of the subject. She doesn’t just take a picture of a slice of cake. She is about to capture time and processes within a single frame.