{"id":1058,"date":"2004-08-04T01:53:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/on_photography\/"},"modified":"2004-08-04T01:53:02","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T05:53:02","slug":"on_photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/on_photography\/","title":{"rendered":"On Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this quoted on a photo site, attributed to <i>The Amateur Photographer&#8217;s Handbook<\/i> by Aaron Sussman (pp. 116, 117):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Edward Steichen had put together that monumental photographic exhibition, <i>The Family of Man<\/i>, he summed it by saying: &#8220;No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.&#8221; What he meant, of course, was that the wonders of even a simple camera are not fathomed by one man in a lifetime. Whether it&#8217;s a ten dollar Instamatic, or a three thousand dollar Hasselblad loaded with accessories, there is one magical ingredient that brings the inanimate machine to life: the brain of the photographer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, if a good photographer does not match the simplest camera, a bad photographer (me) is lost with a more complex one.<br \/>\nBut hey, it&#8217;s fun trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/on_photography\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to On Photography\"><p>Saw this quoted on a photo site, attributed to The Amateur Photographer&#8217;s Handbook by Aaron Sussman (pp. 116, 117): After Edward Steichen had put together that monumental photographic exhibition, The Family of Man, he summed it by saying: &#8220;No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.&#8221; What he meant, of course, was that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}