{"id":6564,"date":"2023-04-03T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T12:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=6564"},"modified":"2023-04-09T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T12:17:15","slug":"thought-from-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=6564","title":{"rendered":"Thought from last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thinking about the introduction to this book — Witness in our time<\/em> — and the role of documentary photography in society. When are you documenting the reality of life in 2023? And when are you a dilettante, a voyeur, some fool taking photos? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This poorly framed shot — one student was particularly vicious in her critique of my composition — captured that feeling. I walk this route every day. Every day I see this human in this space. From my neighborhood to my school, I witness all manner of things, things that may or may not be seen by others, things that may or may not need to be seen by others. What’s a reflection of me and what’s the city of Philadelphia? Where’s the overlap, if any? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet here I go, with my dress shirt and backpack, from one neighborhood to another, taking photos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light, Ken. Witness in Our Time?: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers<\/em>. 2nd ed. Smithsonian Books, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking about the introduction to this book — Witness in our time — and the role of documentary photography in society. When are you documenting the reality of life in 2023? And when are you a dilettante, a voyeur, some fool taking photos? This poorly framed shot — one student was particularly vicious in her … Continue reading Thought from last week<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1HS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}