People, Light and the Illusion of Photography

"I was perfecting a method of candid photography that required suspending premeditated thinking to observe my surroundings. Then, using depth of field to pre-focus the camera, I could quickly react and snap  pictures when inspired. The rewards were photographs connecting the interplay of light, people, and their surroundings. I was fascinated by how a camera creates relationships with objects included in the frame and transforms the three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional image. Although a photograph meticulously describes what the camera sees and is always documentary by nature, it is also profoundly an illusion—its true meaning living within the boundaries of fact and fiction." — Nicholas Blair


(Image: San Francisco, 1977)

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