Excerpts from Philip Perkis' Teaching Photography

[moftchor]

Phil Perkis was one of my professors last year who completely transformed my thinking about art and photography. He wrote a small, spiral-bound book on his theories and photographs; here are some of the passages I particularly liked:

It is commonplace to think that photographing involves finding something interesting, taking a picture of it,

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[lifestills]

insight through repetition

[aspectratio]

thanks for posting this. sometimes i need to be reminded of things.

i've been reading aphotoeditor.com a lot lately and it usually just depresses me more at the "competition" out there and the "reality" of trying to make a living off photography.

for me, most of it is self questioning and almost always never satisfied with the self/work.

ok ramble. i enjoyed this post.