When reading Susan Sontag's article "On Photography" I kept going back and thinking about the video I watched earlier with David Hockney. At the beginning of the video he talks about photography as an art that is much simpler than working on a painting but then again it's not. It's thinking of that split second that you want to capture and how you are going to develop this image and then mount it and all the back story that no one really thinks about, unless you are a photographer.
Sontag also brings up the same point a little but also goes a little deeper. Talking about how photographs are an easy, handheld thing and can be reproduced multiple times. Adding them into a book can make them last even longer than they could as an image alone. It's all things that you kind of think about but don't really think that much about unless it somehow comes up or, like I said before, you're a photographer.
I am a student at the University of Kansas majoring in Photo Media and minoring in Mass Communications (News and Info). I love all styles of art and showing what I create and what others have created that inspires me and I would like to share that with you.
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