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Makers or Takers

Oscar Wilde died in 1900, so he probably wasn't refering to photography and Cartier-Bresson hadn't been born.
 
Oscar Wilde died in 1900, so he probably wasn't refering to photography and Cartier-Bresson hadn't been born.

But their spirits - Wilde's and Winogrand's - seem to still be amongst us
 
Doesn't make that quote less true.



chose very carefully what to show the world. That wasn't reality: it was an interpretation of it.

HCB images were a much closer version of reality than 99% of images taken today.
 
HCB images were a much closer version of reality than 99% of images taken today.

That makes no sense whatsoever. Like Brian suggests, you can't possibly prove that.

Anyway, reality sucks. Photos don't smell like sewerage. They don't fire bullets at you. They don't drop dead in front of you. They don't burn your hands. They're not reality.
 
Photos don't smell like sewerage. They don't fire bullets at you. They don't drop dead in front of you. They don't burn your hands. They're not reality.

And they are always something that someone makes to create an approximation - usually in two dimensions - of a reality that has three spatial dimensions and often a temporal one as well.