LORETTA LUX: “Loretta Lux – New Work” (2004)

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Loretta Lux: New Work (2004) Afterimage, March-April, 2004 by Jill Conner When the digital camera was introduced in the 1990s, it was predicted to displace the technique of modern photography as well as its practice. By translating light into codified data stored within a random access chip, digital technology radically changed processing habits. Photoshop did the rest. Imaging softwares provide users with the opportunity to create subtle man…

LORETTA LUX: “Loretta Lux – New Work” (2004)

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

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…enting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photographer. All my training was surrealism. I still feel very close to a surrealist but he said if you were labelled as a surrealist photographer you won’t go any further you won’t have an assignment …

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”

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…. It just simply means that I am able to think better. Let’s put it that way. AC: I read that you don’t really consider yourself an environmental portrait photographer, is that true? AN: No, I think basically I am. But I hate labels. That label was placed on me by an early writer who did an article on me calling me the father of the environmental portrait, which seems to have stuck. But the Stravinsky is not an environmental portrait, it’s really…

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”

DAIDO MORIYAMA: Daido Moriyama: Investigations of a Dog” (1999)

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… stomach-cutting of the samurai, in the office of the commander of the new Japanese army. He wanted to see the restoration of Imperial power and military culture, he wrote, and he is therefore called a political rightist. The label helps us little toward understanding him, though. The leftist students who fought the police in the streets and tunnels of Shinjuku, and who appear in a few of Tomatsu’s and Moriyama’s photographs, also sho…

DAIDO MORIYAMA: Daido Moriyama: Investigations of a Dog” (1999)

 
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