{"id":10349,"date":"2016-01-22T02:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T07:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10349"},"modified":"2016-01-22T02:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T07:40:22","slug":"what-makes-a-photographer-when-everyone-is-taking-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10349","title":{"rendered":"What makes a photographer when everyone is taking pictures?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10350\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ken-van-sickle-photography-bw-art-photographer-slrlounge-kishore-sawh-4-1600x900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10350\" title=\"ken-van-sickle-photography-bw-art-photographer-slrlounge-kishore-sawh-4-1600x900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ken-van-sickle-photography-bw-art-photographer-slrlounge-kishore-sawh-4-1600x900.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Central Station by Ken Van Sickle\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ken-van-sickle-photography-bw-art-photographer-slrlounge-kishore-sawh-4-1600x900.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ken-van-sickle-photography-bw-art-photographer-slrlounge-kishore-sawh-4-1600x900-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ken-van-sickle-photography-bw-art-photographer-slrlounge-kishore-sawh-4-1600x900-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ken-van-sickle-photography-bw-art-photographer-slrlounge-kishore-sawh-4-1600x900-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Central Station by Ken Van Sickle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Excellent question. Ken Van Sickle&#8217;s answer is in this article and video that are part of the Brief But Spectacular series at PBS.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>PBS: &#8220;For six decades, Ken Van Sickle has been quietly producing photographs in his darkroom, located in the center of Manhattan. His photos range from documenting the bohemian life of New York and Paris in the 1950s and \u00e2\u20ac\u212260s to pushing the limits of the medium itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ken:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There are a lot of things that make a good photograph. You have to think about texture and gesture and composition, and all the things that painting has in it. Technology doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change the way photography is. It just \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it makes it available to more people, which means there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be much, much more really terrible pictures taken or pictures that are totally dependent on subject, which is all, all right.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you were there when the Hindenburg caught on fire, and you took a picture of it, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great photograph. But you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not a great photographer, because you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t repeat that in everyday things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What a great photographer does is, they are consistently able to make something in a style that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal to themselves. My pictures don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t depend on extreme sharpness. They depend on the composition and on the subject and on the way I see it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My name is Ken Van Sickle. This is my Brief But Spectacular take on sharing what I see.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The full article and video are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/what-makes-a-photographer-when-everyone-is-taking-pictures\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rlfinearts.com\/exhibitions\/past\/ken-van-sickle-photographs\">A gallery of Ken Van Sickle&#8217;s work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/what-makes-a-photographer-when-everyone-is-taking-pictures\/\">What makes a photographer when everyone is taking pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/tag\/brief-but-spectacular\/\">Brief But Spectacular series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent question. Ken Van Sickle&#8217;s answer is in this article and video that are part of the Brief But Spectacular series at PBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10349"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10353,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349\/revisions\/10353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}