Was jeder Fotograf wissen sollte steht vermutlich im Buch “The Education of a Photographer” von Charles Traub und Steven Heller.
Hier ein kurzer Auszug – The Do’s and Dont’s of a photographer
The Do’s
- Do something old in a new way
- Do something new in an old way
- Do something new in a new way, Whatever works… works
- Do it sharp, if you can’t, call it art
- Do it in the computer – if it can be done there
- Do fifty of them – you will definitely get a show
- Do it big, if you cant do it big, do it red
- If all else fails turn it upside down, if it looks good it might work
- Do Bend your knees
- If you don’t know what to do, look up or down – but continue looking
- Do celebrities – if you do a lot of them, you’ll get a book
- Connect with others – network
- Edit it yourself
- Design it yourself
- Publish it yourself
- Edit, When in doubt shoot more
- Edit again
- Read Darwin, Marx, Joyce, Freud, Einstein, Benjamin, McLuhan, and Barth
- See Citizen Kane ten times
- Look at everything – stare
- Construct your images from the edge inward
- If it’s the “real world,” do it in color
- If it can be done digitally – do it
- Be self centered, self involved, and generally entitled and always pushing – and damned to hell for doing it
- Break all rules, except the chairman’s
The Don’ts
- Don’t do it about yourself – or your friend – or your family
- Don’t dare photograph yourself nude
- Don’t look at old family albums
- Don’t hand color it
- Don’t write on it
- Don’t use alternative process – if it ain’t straight do it in the computer
- Don’t gild the lily – AKA less is more
- Don’t go to video when you don’t know what else to do
- Don’t photograph indigent, people, particularly in foreign lands
- Don’t whine, just produce
