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Fuji X-E2 plus Helios 44M-7 at F11. I tend to think that I learn best (most thorough, that is) when I have to struggle with the matter. If the matter in hand does not put up resistance to understanding, there is nothing to learn. Can this relationship be transferred to photography? If it can, are those photos best where the photographer had to struggle with the resistance of the subject matter? Would this then exclude the "snapshot" - something that (quite unintentionally) might turn out as pretty good. It is at this stage that the issue of objectification pops up. Turning something or someone into a camera object means that photographers force their will upon a subject - breaking its resistance. Photography then becomes a oneway street and there is no communication or dialogue between photographer and subject. The result could be sentimental, even Kitsch, the proliferation of cliches and the like. Should we then apply a golden rule to photography, namely to treat our subject the same way we ourselves would like to be treated?
Objects
Fuji X-E2 plus Helios 44M-7 at F11. I tend to think that I learn best (most thorough, that is) when I have to struggle with the matter. If the matter in hand does not put up resistance to understanding, there is nothing to learn. Can this relationship be transferred to photography? If it can, are those photos best where the photographer had to struggle with the resistance of the subject matter? Would this then exclude the "snapshot" - something that (quite unintentionally) might turn out as pretty good. It is at this stage that the issue of objectification pops up. Turning something or someone into a camera object means that photographers force their will upon a subject - breaking its resistance. Photography then becomes a oneway street and there is no communication or dialogue between photographer and subject. The result could be sentimental, even Kitsch, the proliferation of cliches and the like. Should we then apply a golden rule to photography, namely to treat our subject the same way we ourselves would like to be treated?