Photography and Text by Rongrong Liu, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski . After consuming the 100 photographs, the first question raised in my mind is what the photographers of our generation should try to pursue? Technology nowadays allows us to reduce much effort on things that the … Read more
Photography and Text by Wing Hei Emily Cheng, Copyright 2018. . Book Review . Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski . After reading John Szarkowski’s Looking at Photographs, I was struck by the obstacles that photographers faced in the pursuit of the perfect shot. As a lifelong digital photographer, it was inconceivable to me … Read more
Photography and Text by Eileen Ko, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski . Beauty in the Ordinary . John Szarkowski’s Looking at Photographs is a simple picture book. He selected pictures from the The Museum of Modern Art’s photography collection and wrote brief, eloquent essays about the history … Read more
Photography and Text by Victoria Meng, Copyright 2018 . Book Review – Susan Sontag’s, On Photography . Raw emotions frozen in time, the essence of an era preserved forever, ecstatic motion immortalized in texture. Empirically, photographs are magical. From light and film, life is created within two dimensions, from detail and abstraction comes an … Read more
Photography and Text by Yash Killa, Copyright 2018 . Book Review: Susan Sontag’s, On Photography . ‘On Photography’, authored by Susan Sontag, is a 1977 compilation of a series of essays written by her on the subject throughout the 20th Century. The essays range from talking about the nature of photography along with the … Read more