Photographers who are hell bent on perfectionism?

[MTGseattle]

I haven't seen that in a while.

 

[snusmumriken]

Is it too much to suggest that Irving Penn was a perfectionist? I don’t really know enough about him.

 

[CMoore]

Subtitles.?
I thought it was a joke.
I remember it being a big title, but i never saw it.
Now i see............ Good Heavens

 

[Pieter12]

If perfectionism implies not taking chances, then it's not worthwhile.

 

[_T_]

Perfection is a very easy thing to achieve in art. It only requires that all of goals of the endeavor are achievable, and that all of those goals are achieved. The artist has complete control over the goals and so has complete control over the cost, in whatever terms apply, necessary to achieve perfection.

There is a kind of perfection, however, that goes beyond this. Where the way in which the goals are achieved affects the outcome of the final product in such a way that the result goes beyond the imagined perfection of the original plan, transcending the perfection of the mind to the greater perfection of the project's ultimate reality. This is not necessarily any more difficult to achieve, but the path to do so is not always so clear. Sometimes people have to guess at paths towards this kind of perfection, while others they may have an intuitive sense of a direction, and sometimes they can see clearly from the outset the exact steps necessary to achieve it.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to Photrio!!

 

[snusmumriken]

If perfectionism implies not taking chances, then it's not worthwhile.

I don't think it does. In my understanding, it implies being true to some self-imposed standard, irrespective of anyone else.

 

[Pieter12]

I don't think it does. In my understanding, it implies being true to some self-imposed standard, irrespective of anyone else.

A perfect circle is nice, but uninspired. My self-imposed standard is different, I guess.

 

[snusmumriken]

A perfect circle is nice, but uninspired. My self-imposed standard is different, I guess.

I'm afraid you've lost me there.

I remember a story about a Japenese artist who was employed by an Emperor The artist spent a lot of time walking alone along the seashore, but not apparently doing any art. After a year of this, the Emperor summoned him and demanded to know what he had achieved. The artist took a stick of chalk, and drew on the floor, with exquisite precision and without lifting his chalk, the outline of a crab. He kept his job (and his head).

 

[photogear]

A perfect circle is nice, but uninspired. My self-imposed standard is different, I guess.

The perfect circle (clinical so to speak) doesn't inspire me either.