Mário Venda Nova machte ein Interview mit dem Fotografen Jörg Colberg (von Conscientious) in seinem Weblog “O Elogio da Sombra”. Das Interview ist in Englisch und einer Übersetzung ins Portugiesische verfügbar.
11 Mai 2007
Jörg Colberg Interview bei “O Elogio da Sombra”
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Me
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15 Mai 2007
camera are just tools and the advent of photo-sharing sites are overflowing the internet with a vast quantity of photographs but the quality isn’t growing so fast.
well, i absolutley agree with that viewpoint but it isnt a one size fits all statement like jorg would have us believe.
Not everybody could afford to shoot film before digital came along and it gives some people tremendous opportunities which they never had before, i don’t really wish to give jorg a hard time, but his own comments about digital photography are pretty anonymous and snarky themselves, they make him come across as a bit of a snob really and i’m sure that’s not the case in real life.
And before my keyboard consumes itself in flames, i’d just like to point out that Ansel Adams himself was keen to welcome the new developments in digital photography and any brief tour of any photography course in the world at the moment reveals the most reactionary tutors favor film.
mário venda nova
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15 Mai 2007
@Me: i agree with Jorg, cameras are just tools.
i don’t agree with you when you say that Jorg comments are pretty anonymous, Jorg is a well known photographer and blogger and is opinion is heard and respected. that is why i want to interview him in the first place.
i’m sure you didn’t read my other interviews, all the previous photographers had an opinion that is very close to what Jorg said.
All photographers agree that there’s more photographs out there but not necessary better photographs than before. what you see now is an exposure that was not possible a few years ago, now there’s flickr (where i have a page) and zooomr and vazzar and phoblogs, etc.
of course now is possible to photograph at a price next to nothing: all you have to do is to buy a camera. marketing made photography a trendy thing and that’s not necessary a good thing, you see all kinds of photographs that a few years ago wouldn’t leave the drawer. now the drawer is in the internet for all of us to see. is it a good or a bad thing? the sentence ‘we are all photographers now’ isn’t quite true, we all take pictures now but are they photographs in the real sense of the word?
“any brief tour of any photography course in the world at the moment reveals the most reactionary tutors favor film.”
i think reactionary is the wrong word, maybe the word is visionary. please read Charlotte Cotton lecture ‘black&white: the new color’ for the ‘tip of the tongue’ lectures. you can find the link in google or on my website. then we can keep this talk. i’m egger to talk to you again. and please, buy a spare keyboard.
Me
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16 Mai 2007
you see all kinds of photographs that a few years ago wouldn’t leave the drawer. now the drawer is in the internet for all of us to see
Well, you can’t say that and then link to an essay extolling the virtues of found photographs, can you ?
It’s an interesting essay though and it’s that state of being open to any type of photography because you might find something inspiring or interesting or whatever, rather than the kind of: ‘it’s a faraway medium of which we know nothing’ dismissal that jorg supplies us with.
The hope that there may be something wonderful contained in the drawers of other people is the founding principle of both western art and cheap motels.It should be defended at every opportunity.
mário venda nova
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20 Mai 2007
Me: i was away so i didn’t have the time to give you an answer. I’ll get back to this latter on.
Thanks.