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- 'On Photography' by Susan Sontag
Published in 1973, On Photography (Amazon UK and US) is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag, most/all of which appeared in the New York Review of Books. When I started college in 1990, roughly half the age of the book ago, we were assigned the first chapter to read. As I’ve been thinking about photography a little over the past few months I thought it was time I read the whole thing. It’s all good, but that first chapter, which you might be able to cough find online, was the most interesting to me. I think this book, or something like it, is well worth a read if you feel your photography habit is caught up in the purely technical, buying bits of kit, angle. Here are the bits from the whole book that jumped out at me while reading…
In Books on 23 August 2010. Permalink
- The Online Photographer: 'A Leica for a Year' a Year Later
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A comment posted on another site on 23 August 2010. Permalink
I didn't do it with a Leica but I did dig out the Pentax K1000 I bought used when I went to college twenty years ago and haven't used for years. I bought a 50mm f/1.7 lens on eBay and have been using nothing but this (aside from some casual phone/point-and-shoot shots occasionally), with Tri-X, for over a year now.