{"id":5023,"date":"2024-06-15T05:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T05:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2024-06-15T05:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T05:13:49","slug":"photography-needs-to-stop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2024\/06\/15\/photography-needs-to-stop-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography Needs To Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mongolia, August 2022<\/p><\/div>\n

Compartmentalization is a good point: sometimes it’s simply a psychological necessity to suspend your emotional response and move into a purely functional state, otherwise, you just break down and weep. How much of this \u201csuspended state\u201d is the normal way photography works: Daido Moriyama calls it his \u201cHunter\u201d-instincts, Stephen Shore escapes into a cold, scientific stare and calls it \u201cSolving Pictures\u201d. When Nakahira says \u201cPhotography needs to stop being art. It needs to stop expressing feelings. When it is completely a record, it can be something\u201d, he means \u201cI have to stop feeling\u201d, he wants to turn himself into a photographic machine: and ends up burning all his negatives and drinks himself into a coma… The \u201cTetsuo\u201d, the \u201cIron Man\u201d is a very Japanese\/photographic way of operating…<\/p>\n

And the other way becomes increasingly difficult: the issues of representation, the consciousness about the social contract of photography – all that baggage of being a sentient, social human being can bring photography to a grinding halt and freeze your finger over the shutter, so is it necessary to become a photographic monster (like Diane Arbus most certainly was…) to get anything done at all?!<\/p>\n

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Compartmentalization is a good point: sometimes it’s simply a psychological necessity to suspend your emotional response and move into a purely functional state, otherwise, you just break down and weep. How much of this \u201csuspended state\u201d is the normal way photography works: Daido Moriyama calls it his \u201cHunter\u201d-instincts, Stephen Shore escapes into a cold, scientific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6L1xp-1j1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5025,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}