Put Silence In Your Photos And See What Happens

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@JohnDrummondPhoto Жыл бұрын

A lot of times, someone will say about a photograph or a painting, "I could have done that." To which I say, "Yeah, but you wouldn't have." Choosing to look for the sublime within the "obvious" is what often defines genius.

@andrewgallup3890 Жыл бұрын

There you go again. I just spent 4 months in the western US taking photos of much the same things and places as Adams (I was not aware of his work). Now you made me "think" again. Stop it!

@anis182 Жыл бұрын

I really like this channel. I happened to find this yesterday. I don't know if there is any channel in KZfaq that shows photography in the POV of an artist. This is fascinating. There are a lot of channel that tells you like "5 tips to up your photography". And i hate watching those. But this is really underrated. More people should watch this. All the best!

@JohnDrummondPhoto Жыл бұрын

This is one of the best channels on KZfaq. I suggest you look up "Expressive Photography" whose host, Alister Benn, has a very Zen approach to outdoor photography.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Wow that’s awesome. Thank you

@ratgirl13 Жыл бұрын

The boys in the pickup reminds me of the one Sally Mann did of her daughter, it’s wild how photography connects and informs us to the work of other photographers, it’s like an echo that vibrates deep within our souls.

@breathestrongcycling3672 Жыл бұрын

You know you're a pro youtuber when you can seamlessly place a sponsors message into a video like that 👍

@pwx8460 Жыл бұрын

I agree with you. But my response would be. 👎

@wildfire60 Жыл бұрын

I have found this channel to be the most helpful in terms of getting me to quiet all the noise and self-doubt inside my head and just focus on doing photography. It's so easy to get caught up in having the right up to date camera or the newest lens, traveling to great iconic locations, and focusing technical aspects of photography and forgetting to look and see all that is around you and just doing photography. Thanks for all that you share.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

@anta40 Жыл бұрын

Great review. I never think about "modest" and "silent" before, and of course never see Robert Adams' prints. He and the other "New Topographic" folks like Lewis Baltz (big fan of him) definitely changed my perception about black and white photography. Many years before, my gold standard was Ansel Adams, obviously. Big massive natural landscape prints displaying a rich palette of various blacks and whites. Well actually he's still an inspiration until today. But after seeing Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz etc photos, I'm not that obsessed anymore with natural landscape and started pursuing urban landscape. Take one of his famous photos, "Mobile Homes", example. I definitely think it's equally great to Ansel Adam's iconic Yosemite photos, in different ways. Ansel captured Yosemite in its full glory, while Robert purposefully contrasted mobile homes area (a man made landscape) with a mountain (natural landscape) on the background. Less dramatic? Perhaps. Less beauty? Oh no. In a way, I think Robert Adams's approach suits lazy peoples like me better. I don't need to travel to a mountain far far a way to make interesting images. Instead, get a camera and take a walk around the city. You'll find something interesting if you are willing to "see".

@eatsleepdrums Жыл бұрын

Wonderful video. I'm actually doing my PhD on how photography can be used as a basis for music composition and the idea of silence plays a much larger role than one would suspect. The photographs of Robert Adams and Todd Hido are actually the ones that are driving my research predominantly.

@tedbrown7908 Жыл бұрын

I lived in Pueblo West, Colorado for 13 years and much of southern Colorado hasn't changed much. This is where I really got interested in photography. I photographed the plains, the storms, the Big Horn sheep in the mountains. Antelopes run free everywhere in the state. Eagles have winter grounds at Lake Pueblo.

@VictorReynolds Жыл бұрын

I love Adam's portrayal of America in a quiet way. His work stands as a "silent witness" to the modern American landscape. Thanks for sharing!

@christopheredwardf1250 Жыл бұрын

Thanks again Alex for a great presentation. Addicted to Robert Adams' photography but also love his writing, especially his little book "Why People Photograph". I will certainly be recommending this video to my photographer friends.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you

@williamcrawford7857 Жыл бұрын

It's amazing to see how much my home state has changed , I remember as a kid some of these areas Adam's photographed. Understandably they are unrecognizable now.

@benroyal1957 Жыл бұрын

Gerry Badger offered his critique of photographic size in his essay "Without Author or Art: The Quiet Photograph." He calls it the "muralist syndrome writ large." It's in his collection of essays "The Pleasure of Good Photography." You might also be interested in a collection of Adams's essays "Beauty in Photography."

@lktasl999 9 ай бұрын

Honestly that has to be the smoothest transition to an ad I’ve ever seen

@simonbnyc Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! Robert Adams has always been my favorite photographer ever since I accidentally came across "The New West" in my art college library back in 1977. His work was an immediate inspiration.

@johnlyon8403 Жыл бұрын

I've been away from the channel for a bit, but I'm <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="103">1:43</a> in, and I'm reminded so strongly why your channel is such a great resource for photographers. That quote is amazing. Thank you for putting some silence in the photography social media space.

@davidtidswell8374 Жыл бұрын

Incredibly thoughtful as ever. Thanks for putting this together. Silence may also come from the removal of sounds and the people and animals who made them. These are landscapes of beauty and violent conquest.

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

Excellent virtual visit of "American Silence." Thank you also for pointing out that a photograph has also to be put in the context of the photographer's life-work and of its time (including artistic, political and philosophical background) for its deep meaning and esthetics to be understood. By the way, New Topographics was not really a group but photographers that William Jenkins (curator of photographs at the George Eastman Museum) showed at the same time (1975) under that title. He was helped by Joe Deal, one of the exhibited photographers-most of whom were just out of school (MFAs). Robert Adams was the odd man out (so were up to a point the Bechers), older, more experienced and not quite convinced by the idea of the exhibition in the beginning. Very few people saw the actual exhibition and its reception was rather cold. Later, photographers and critics (especially in Europe [France, Germany]) began to see the importance of it. It made its way to recognition along the same path as Robert Frank's "The Americans," American audiences seeming generally more prone to wave the flag and turn away from meaningful work if it has a critical slant.

@carolinezaramati9193 Жыл бұрын

Adam's work seems simple and yet so impactful. His body of work conveys a feeling of truth, something that is lacking in todays over processed and 'doctored' photography. Thank you Alex for sharing. It's always a delight watching your videos.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

@tplyons5459 Жыл бұрын

The "Cover Photo" of the page shows some trailer homes with a small mountain in the back ground. That is the south end of my home town, Golden, Colorado. The mountain is named Green Mountain. The trailer park in the foreground had an unfortunate event. Across the street from these homes is a larger trailer park. This one was build on the city dump. When the dump was full the city/county just plowed dirt over the top with not other mitigation. Methane from the rotting material built up and one day BOOM! Several trailers destroyed and one lady killed. Not what I would call a quiet scene.

@LoudSilences Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video from Ottawa Canada. I like the idea that smaller prints to me seem more intimate.

@RogerHyam Жыл бұрын

"Listening to the river" is his book that got me hooked.

@Tupunaforever Жыл бұрын

Thankyou Mr Adams that was inspirational and your a great story teller thankyou

@tomwestbrook Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video. Robert Adam’s has been one of my favorites for years and I have several of his books and take them out more than most others.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@richardrizzo_photography Жыл бұрын

Well done Alex, Adams is one of my most favorite photographers and I appreciate the way you described his work.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@southernseclusion9525 Жыл бұрын

Loved this video. It so appeals to me and the shots I seem to take throughout Australia. The silence can be quite deafening here. Thank you for the insight and inspiration which your videos provide. Since I'm self taught in photography, your channel provides great references on areas to go read up on. Cheers

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome, thanks for watching

@geoffmphotography9444 Жыл бұрын

Excellent talk on a favourite subject.

@samggfr Жыл бұрын

"After people live awhile in a place to which they've laid waste, it gets to be easy to hate a great many things." R. Adams, 2006. So silently true.

@MVCvevasI Жыл бұрын

Wonderful.

@toine1915 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic video, Alex. I became a fan of Adam Adams by looking at this video. Fantastic simplicity in his work. Thank you very much, my friend. Antoine.

@ThePhotographicEye 11 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@Rob.1340 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. All the best. 👍📷😎

@gregorypease213 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful video, Alex. The current trend towards HUGE prints has gotten crazy. Often, a smaller image, one that we can hold in our hands, can evoke so much more and offers something we can engage with more deeply in a way that a giant print on a wall cannot. Too often, when I see a large print, it becomes about the size, and I find myself looking at it more analytically, less emotionally. I recall an exhibit I had at a gallery in Napa once where I displayed a series of small 9x6 prints, framed to 20x16. During the reception, I noticed that people spent more time with these than they did the larger format prints. Similarly, I was at a photo faire where I had the chance to hold in my hands prints from Atget, Kertesz, Cartier Bresson, and other luminaries of photography's history. These small prints carried so much more with them than they would have printed large and hanging on walls. This video made me think about some of the whys of all of this, and brought things back to light for me. Thank you for your thoughts here, which stiumlated my own, and especially for this wonderful presentation of Adams's beautifully timeless work.

@fotovideo2.017 Жыл бұрын

Hello great video, those shots you took are so beautiful that I will propose them on my channel!

@GJSsongsmith Жыл бұрын

Thanks Alex … beautiful photos , great inspiring video again 🙏

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@keremk Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your videos. So informative and inspiring. Thanks for your time. 🙏🙏✌️

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@iphoneography Жыл бұрын

Thankyou, Alex.

@by.othman Жыл бұрын

A fabulous idea to explore and capture, have never thought about this concept before... many thanks

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@willstith1 Жыл бұрын

I have had this book for a little while and I really didn't get it at first. I liked it more the second time I read it. I think I will like it even more with subsequent readings. It's also beautifully printed and I just love the paper and the feel of it.

@baharam98 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your wisdom, thank you for sharing it.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

@johnclay7644 Жыл бұрын

Very engaging and informative14mins on the Great Robert Adams. some informative insights and good content.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@thomaslee1988 Жыл бұрын

His photographs remind me of those pictures featured in Three Days of the Condor: Turner (Robert Redford): You're funny. You take pictures of empty streets and trees with no leaves on them. Kathy (Faye Dunaway): It's winter. Turner: Not quite winter. They look like November. Not autumn, not winter. In-between. I like them. Kathy: Thanks.

@thomaslee1988 Жыл бұрын

I particularly liked your segue to Aura. Thought for a while you were still talking about photography. Hahaha

@triplewinlin5576 Жыл бұрын

I prefer to photograph scenes like those that Robert Adams seems to have also favored. I am not formally educated in photography, so until I watched your video today, I had always thought that my taste for simple, quiet images would be rather boring to others. Thank you for helping me see the validity of my preference.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

@christopherward5065 Жыл бұрын

I like his minimalism. It makes me think of an American vernacular. I imagined Hopper’s gaze in his work, we get to overlay our own emotional experience of a personal encounter with a scene. It doesn’t explain or apologise it meets us halfway and, by being at a personal size we can see all four edges. The image starts and stops in space and becomes the viewer’s personal view.

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

Christopher, what do you mean by "it makes me think of an American vernacular"?

@stevehageman6785 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful Video - Another Photographer that I happened to run across is A. Aubrey Bodine - I think his B&W's are the best I have ever seen. His daughter made a book of his best images. "Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country".

@SimonWillig Жыл бұрын

I'm afraid I don't get it. Maybe you must have been there to appreciate these pictures? But still: thank you ever so much for producing all this beautiful content.,!

@aes53 Жыл бұрын

It's quite a hurdle to go from Ansel Adams' dramatic landscapes to subtle work like Robert Adams and others of the New Topologies school. Though, well worth it I tend to think.

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

As an anecdote, "Moonrise Over Hernandez" (by Ansel) is one of the first prints, if not the first print, Robert Adams bought for himself.

@coryccw9 Жыл бұрын

Hit the ball out of the park with this video ( for me anyway) , love it, put aside academics, “how does it make you feel”. Agree 100%. I have Personally been struggling with this, feeling like I’ve been missing more often than hitting the target (make the viewer feel something). I’m part of your Patreon group and would like very much a “1 on 1” review of my work, if you do that sort of thing, understanding that it comes at a cost. Please let me know if it’s possible. And if yes, please describe the steps to book a session with you. Once again, great video, appreciate your content very much. Cheers 🌞🍻

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

Hi Cory, Glad you're enjoying the videos, and thanks for your support. Yes, I do offer 1-2-1 reviews. You can find out more here: tpe.teachable.com/courses/

@diogomoreira7003 Жыл бұрын

"As the artist wanted". This statement triggers me to think on music terms, being coined purely for marketing reasons, and parroted by most people nowadays. Like in music terms, what the "artist" wanted can be a whole different thing altogether - especially since the photographer can revisit the same photo again and again and develop it differently each time (I belive you showed on another video three photos from Ansel Adams that illustrate this point far better than my words). I agree wholeheartedly on going to exhibitions and see the photos themselves. For those who lack the means or the opportunity, single photos on the screen or on books will have to suffice. Again, I disagree on the point the the photographer intended their body of work to be displayed as one single entity - like on music, where an album can be a coherent whole (like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon") or just a collection of songs (like Pink Floyd's "Whish you were here"); some selections of photos can be stringed together on a given theme (like Giles Duley's book "One second of light") or just be a haphazard collection of individual photos.

@Robert-rs5qg Жыл бұрын

I enjoy all your videos, and this one is no exception. I will look further at Robert Adams’s photographs. But I am a bit confused by the inclusion of the Eddie Adams photo at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="357">5:57</a>, showing the execution of a VC prisoner in Viet Nam. Hardly a “quiet” photograph.

@JohnDrummondPhoto Жыл бұрын

This photo comes where Alex is discussing a Pulitzer Prize exhibit (including this famous image) where the photos had very spectacular subjects or (pardon the phrasing) execution. Adams' photos are a total opposite of that. That's the point he was making.

@Robert-rs5qg Жыл бұрын

@@JohnDrummondPhoto Got it. Thanks.

@thatdeafguyuk Жыл бұрын

American Silence is indeed a wonderful book, however I wish that Aperture had used a better paper stock that gave a far greater depth to the shadow detail which was lost.

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

Get some of his books reprinted by Steidl (tritone).

@esanford Жыл бұрын

I’ve enjoyed and studied photography my entire life. Nevertheless, I struggle to understand the work of photographers like Robert Adams. Frankly, the work is visually boring in that they appear to be “snaps taken precisely at 18% grey”. Because of that I fail to see what they bring. Edward Weston included works like this as well as Ansel Adams in some of his lesser known works. However, they have more passion and soul. I also enjoy the work of Harry Callahan. His work also is that of mundane subjects. Unlike Robert Adams, his technical use of the medium allows the soul and passion of an image to show through. The other point that you made is that it is virtually necessary to see an entire exhibition of Adams’ work to discern his message. In fact, one should return to those places to see how they evolve. In comparison, one need only see a single image by Sebastiao Selgado to obtain his message. What does that say? Are they silent or mute? Thanks for a thought provoking presentation.

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

Ed, I understand you are not the only viewer finding Robert Adams's work "boring", in the same way as many people find silence, calm and contemplation boring. In our fast-pace lives these are not moments, pauses easily found and we are somewhat conditioned for "spectacle" (especially the Guy Debord type). Now others may look at this differently, especially now, after getting tired of being hit in the face by often meaningless spectacular images (the type one often sees filtered or with boosted saturation on Instagram). Give yourself a little more time with each image, see it in the context of the ones that surround it. Immerse yourself in the image. As for the "18% gray", one thing R. Adams talks about about in "The New West" is the harshness of the light, and he shows it. In order to realize this you definitely have to look at real prints and not reproductions in books or magazines. R. Adams's work (although he is definitely passionate about his work) is not so much about passion, strong impact, as it is about life, subtlety, simple life, with its lightness of being but also with the sadness generated by how our environment has been so foolishly mistreated for the past 250 years.

@TimberGeek Жыл бұрын

Those were the guys I grew up with.

@PatrykGrzebyta Жыл бұрын

💪❤️💪

@philipblanchardphotography3784 Жыл бұрын

Any chance of seeing and discussing some of your own images on the channel please Alex?

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

There are quite a few videos that feature my own work here. If you look through some of the more recent episodes you’ll find some. Thanks for watching

@thatniallcollins8186 Жыл бұрын

Is colour more noisy than B & W?

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

It's a personal perception. BW or color are not noisy per say. It is how they are being treated (ISO).

@willvanderwalt1160 Жыл бұрын

The peace of these images ... in sad contrast with contemporary US's political scene ...

@enricomarconi8358 Жыл бұрын

Tony, I preorder the camera already including the special VIP service most people don't even know about. BUT... BUT... Here's my issue which might make me cancel the order actually. We are at release Nr 3 from Hasselblad mirrorless right? and they haven't fixed the AF still. Let me explain. This camera is clearly for very specific work I get that. So no action (and I'm fine with that). What I'm NOT fine with is not even eye-Af or face recognition (which I've heard Hasselblad is working on it as we speak so expect it as a firmware update at some point). The camera when shooting against the Sun during a portrait session, WILL NOT FOCUS. I repeat in case it's not clear enough; on backlit situation (which we want right? with an assistant holding a reflector etc etc) THE HASSELBLAD WILL NOT FOCUS AT ALL!! Older models (mirrored), will clinch the focus each and every time. So, where does this leave us??? I might cancel my order... actually.

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

???

@enricomarconi8358 Жыл бұрын

@@BrunoChalifour it appears that when backlit the camera cannot nail focus on the subject... that's 'a bit' of a problem for such an expensive camera wouldn't you say?

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

@@enricomarconi8358 Just realize that the video you commented on is about Robert Adams's exhibition at the Nl Gallery, not the X2D... thence the "???"

@enricomarconi8358 Жыл бұрын

@@BrunoChalifour My KZfaq must have changed video unexpectedly as the previous one was Tony Northrup's review of the Hasselblad X2D 100 MP camera. Great camera but with some issues that need imminent attention imo.

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

@@enricomarconi8358 yes that is what I thought… although interested on your comments on the X2D as I am considering switching from an X1D II mostly because of the added IBIS (and potential faster AF).

@iphoneography Жыл бұрын

*Learnt

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

haha, thanks

@iphoneography Жыл бұрын

@@ThePhotographicEye 😆😉

@robmcd Жыл бұрын

I don’t understand why these videos are done as premieres.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

there are a lot of people who enjoy to watch them live together when they are released. When it's a premier, there's a chat option too.

@robmcd Жыл бұрын

@@ThePhotographicEye ah got it that’s fair.

@ThePhotographicEye Жыл бұрын

@@robmcd Generally get between 100-150 people watching at the same time. It's a nice little community thing. Usually they aren't scheduled out so far in advance, but I'm on holiday at the moment...

@LloydSpencer Жыл бұрын

1975-6 the New Topographic exhibition

@BrunoChalifour Жыл бұрын

1975

@huwpenson2678 Жыл бұрын

oh god, these ads -- arghhhhh

@AndersBjornTH Жыл бұрын

Mid-roll ads are certainly disruptive. I can and always do FF through them, but then I lose interest in viewing the rest of your content. I know you get paid more for mid-roll ads but it cheapens your own brand as a serious content creator.