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“It is no meaning to create art work by one’s own aesthetic and concepts. However, when people take photos, one’s aesthetic and memory are always included. This is a kind of everlasting contradiction.” Daido Moriyama
Shimokitazawa
A GR signed by Daido Moriyama.
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As photos ‘round the world get brighter, contrastier, snappier, sharper, and bolder every seven years I can’t believe they’ve been talking about these trends since the 40’s!
“Howe felt that the tendency toward crisper definition, greater depth, and occasional use of higher contrast was primarily due to a change in public taste ‘directly traceable to the growth in popularity of miniature camera photography, and to the big picture magazines in which the public saw the stark realism of miniature camera photojournalism every week.”
- Walter Blanchard, “Aces of the Camera VII: James Wong Howe, ASC” AC July 1941
(Photo via JPEG Magazine)
*EDIT (September 11, 2011) I admit the reverse is also true: that for every photo just dripping of candy coloured gloss there are a dozen wannabe vintage pix. Ah, the tastes of a retro obsessed generation.
