Patrick, you present these themed essays with great authority and footnoted like a true academic! A great read. Every time I finish one one of your entries, I go back and look to see if there is one I missed! Very nice!
hey thanks! I'm far from an academic but hope people look up some of these books i reference. lots of them are on the internet archive (my secret weapon because the text is searchable)
Love this and everything about Field of View. Made me remember an election night back in 2010 … going to post to IG and tag you. Thank you for what you do.
hey thanks Justin! I always hope that some of the things I touch on will spark some memories from past assignments/working in the field so this cool to hear
Really interesting discussion. I especially liked the idea of "aesthetic questioning" ...
Not 100% sure how I feel about the last image. First looks like hagiography, then sort of wolfish, even fascistic -- the flags, the dreaminess. Which is the sort of ambiguity I would normally like, ahh I guess I"m warming to it the longer I look. It's unclear to me what we think about this, or should think about this. On the one hand "the product" is pretty antidemocratic. On the other hand, as you point out, most of the political photojurnalism you like is pretty staged. Is it just like a shift in power, shift in who controls the image? I would argue, at least in an age of independent and politically diverse journalism (not ours, see Syracuse) there is a democratic advantage to having journalists, rather than campaigns, control the aesthetic messaging. Now, not so much . . . even with strobes. Anyway, really nice essay, thanks.
Patrick, you present these themed essays with great authority and footnoted like a true academic! A great read. Every time I finish one one of your entries, I go back and look to see if there is one I missed! Very nice!
hey thanks! I'm far from an academic but hope people look up some of these books i reference. lots of them are on the internet archive (my secret weapon because the text is searchable)
Love this and everything about Field of View. Made me remember an election night back in 2010 … going to post to IG and tag you. Thank you for what you do.
hey thanks Justin! I always hope that some of the things I touch on will spark some memories from past assignments/working in the field so this cool to hear
Really interesting discussion. I especially liked the idea of "aesthetic questioning" ...
Not 100% sure how I feel about the last image. First looks like hagiography, then sort of wolfish, even fascistic -- the flags, the dreaminess. Which is the sort of ambiguity I would normally like, ahh I guess I"m warming to it the longer I look. It's unclear to me what we think about this, or should think about this. On the one hand "the product" is pretty antidemocratic. On the other hand, as you point out, most of the political photojurnalism you like is pretty staged. Is it just like a shift in power, shift in who controls the image? I would argue, at least in an age of independent and politically diverse journalism (not ours, see Syracuse) there is a democratic advantage to having journalists, rather than campaigns, control the aesthetic messaging. Now, not so much . . . even with strobes. Anyway, really nice essay, thanks.
Thanks for your thoughtful response, appreciate ya
absolutely wonderful essay
Very interesting read. Thank you.