It is so good to see your remarkable work. Not only is it informative, it's also heart felt and authentic. Seeing your work reveals why your other videos are so good, you are a fine photographer yourself, you get it. Bravo!

Wonderful!

Since I have seen these pictures some 10 000 times before I start to wonder if cameras are a curse.

Thank you for the Lecture. I like your Panorama pictures

Thank you for your Roland Barthes summary. It gave me some new insights as Form vs Punctum

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Thought provoking. Some photographs resonated. The many that didn’t caused a revisit and a search for the deeper meanings discussed. I had to wrestle with their many technical flaws, try to put these aside, but often got little further

Great job! Greetings from Spain

brilliant thank you for sharing <3

Fantastic collection of photographs and commentary! For me Barthes had an amazing perspective....not definitive, but reveals the complexity of what happens when we take or look at a photo. Thanks!

Your channel is an incredible source of inspiration and education on the world of photography. Keep doing what you’re doing. This is pure gold. Thank you

Appreciated, thanks.

Thanks for sharking.

never heard of him but great photos

Thank you for this wonderful post; it’s always so interesting. I look forward to seeing more of your work in 2025!

Thanks very much for this - a really good summary. I've always found Barthes' book to be profound, even if I'm never quite sure that he captures what it is about photos - I don't feel convinced that every photo is a memento mori. I do think that he's aiming for understanding in a way which Susan Sontag's book doesn't. She seems to be thinking superficially, to me.

Excellent curation of photographs for this video!

Mmmm ... I'llget round to reading it. All in the intepretation of the viewer and the snapshot aesthetic. Some great wee photo's though ... but as for each photo is a 'little death', thats just pretentious and meaningless drivel.

I don't know if you are aware that in the UK you can find 'lost family photos' printed on postcards. As people often on holiday had personal postcards made. The local business photographer printed them directly onto postcard blanks within hours of them been taken.

Makes me think about what disappears when someone's memories are cancelled, burned or destroyed, without those memories we didn't exist. We kind of disappear. You experienced apartheid yourself, where people were erased from this world for no reason, apartheid is happening now in many places and memories are buried forever with someone's life, life experiences and emotions. It is scary how important these documents are

Brilliant, Graeme. Far and away the best video treatment of the book on the internet. (There are loads of really atrociously bad ones.) You might have mentioned that the book is short, illustrated and very readable.

Counciousness is a mystery. My brain is hidden in darkness in my skull, but still create the experience of being. Photography is a mystery. Fixating a glimpse of a moment long gone. Every photographic image is a mystery. We all have our own unique experience when viewing images - the experience of viewing the image is a unique and personal moment.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Graeme.

Very familiar ground and a really interesting personal critique with its constantly shifting visual environment.

Dear Graeme Thank you for all the great informations from you in the year 2024. It's always a pleasure to listen to you. Wish you a good slide into the new year (that's the way we say it over here 😊), and looking forward to see you again soon. A d who knows, 10000 is on it's way. Good luck!

Thank you. It was nice to present some pictures of the great photographer Ernest Cole

How many females are buying the art? That’s the real number you’re after.

Consume a lot of photo youtube stuff and this channel is number one. Thanks for the education Graeme

Graeme thanks for your invariably interesting, and frequently inspirational, content. Keep up the good work and all the best for 2025.

Thank you for your thoughtful videos, Graeme.

Looking forward to the new videos!

Essential photography channel, thanks for the great videos the past year.

You guys are great!!

I enjoyed hearing how this groundbreaking photographer came from a family of wealth and could create exactly as he pleased with absolutely no concerns for socialist New York Art critics and their stilted and shortsighted judgements. In the old days artists and composers had “patrons.” This was long before the bureaucrats in the NEA got into the act. Guess it just goes to show Capitalism has its finer moments.

Thanks for your wonderful content Graeme, have a prosperous and healthy 2025 and I am looking forward to what you are up to in the new year.

❤Thank you so much for the great and outstanding content❤

Happy Christmas 🎄

Super

Thank you, Graeme. The images together with your analysis of her work brings it alive, for me, at least!

Looking forward to what's next!

Enjoy your holiday and I look forward to the New Year.

Happy New Year, Graeme. Thank you for your insightful videos. I came across your channel in 2024 and it is by far one of the very best channels I follow on KZbin. I appreciate the effort you put into making us aware of photographers from all corners of the world, photographers I have often never heard of before. THANKS!

It's an honor to be part of your inspiring journey. Thank you for what you do, and warm wishes for all the best in the New Year.

Cheers!

Merry Christmas from New Zealand and God bless you all for the year ahead.

Thank you Graeme. A treasure.

Hi Graeme, thank you so much for the valuable content you share. I'm confident your channel is on the path to great success. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thanks for the fantastic content during the year - inspiring and thought-provoking. Have a great Christmas and New Year.

Thank you for the great videos Graeme, looking forward to watching many more in 2025. Happy holidays to you and your family!