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Art is said to heal, but it does so in our spirit. For viruses, we need much more.
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As we strongly believe that if everybody #stayshome helps, here comes our contribution to encourage you to do so:
As many people ask us about what our influences are, we’ll share with you what and who inspire us: writers, designers, painters, books, cinematographers… We hope this triggers your curiosity to know more and do some extra research.
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Please, #staysafe, #stayathome, reduce your stress and increase your curiosity. Let curiosity guide you in these difficult times.
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Photographers 2/2
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We continue with the second post about photographers who have been an important influence on our work.
It’s important to point out that we are not talking about a direct translation of style. What really influenced us what their work as a whole and the philosophy behind their ideas.
As a tip, again, we will include comments on the post with some of their thoughts or texts about them in order to understand their ideas a bit better. Do not stop here and continue researching!
For those asking about originality, do not miss the comment about Shoji Ueda.😉
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1.2.3. Georgui Pinkhassov 
4.5. Vivian Maier
6.7. Alex Webb / Rebecca Norris Web 
8.9.10. Shoji Ueda
11.12. Araki Nobuyoshi
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#read #learn #watch #find #beinspired #triggercuriosity #photographers #GeorguiPinkhassov #VivianMaier #AlexWeb #RebeccaNorris #ShojiUeda #ArakiNobuyoshi

“My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That’s why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.”
— Nobuyoshi Araki

“Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting…Take photography on as a passion, not a career.”
- Alex Webb

“A few years ago, Pico Iyer wrote, in the afterword to our joint Cuba book, “Violet Isle,” that our work sometimes rhymes. Alex and I love that notion. At times, I can pinpoint these subtle echoes or slant rhymes—such as a shared palette or an affinity for surreal or surprising moments. Other times, why two of our photographs work together remains somewhat mysterious.”
- Rebecca Norris Web

“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel. You get on. You go to the end. And someone else has the same opportunity to go to the end. And so on. And somebody else takes their place.”
― Vivian Maier, Street Photographer

“The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire not to go where one has already been.”
- Georgui Pinkhassov

“…It is important to keep in mind that Ueda began his career as a creator of Art Photography, at the very time that the doctrine behind this tendency was crumbling in the face of New Photography. He took to heart the fundamental philosophy that “photography is art.”… he did not approach the photograph as most postwar photographers did, as an exchangeable symbol meant to convey a social message of some sort. Instead, to Ueda, the photograph was itself a complete, discrete world (a work of art). … Ueda did not place great weight on the content. Rather, his goal was to create a controlled, discrete world via a certain clear ordering of aesthetic.“
-Lizawa Kotaro, “On Ueda Shoji: The World as Object”

“Ueda Shoji first appeared before me suffused with the air of a stranger… In fact Ueda occupies an unmistakable unique position in the history of Japanese photographic expression.  The distinctive style of his photographs appears at first glance to be easy to imitate (and there are, in fact, crowds of imitators), but he has charted a unique territory that on one has been able to approach.  In this sense he is an indenpendent singularity. If asked to name a photographer with a similar style, I am unable to offer even one.”
-Lizawa Kotaro, “On Ueda Shoji: The World as Object”