“Photography lacks intentionality." | Photographer Paul Graham | Louisiana Channel

[@thelouisianachannel]

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[@minlee4010]

오늘도 좋은 하루

[@seb_steimel]

"Accepting life as it flows rather than trying to control it" - rarely has a description of artistic work fit so well for me. Thanks a lot for this video!

[@MargaretWaagePhotography]

"Learning to see life, flowing and coming at you and moving past you." Lovely! Beautiful images!

[@jeremoe1]

I've watched this 3 or 4 times, different days, but I keep coming back to it. He sums it up quite well, what photography is about, at least for me. Thanks for a great video !

[@asystasyorg]

I appreciate both Paul Graham's philosophy of photography and my profound divergences from it as a literature and philosophy scholar. Thank you, too, for demonstrating that technics such as sharp images, "proper focus," etc. *are not always paramount* and that the image can transcend that. Thank you!

[@cmgreatest7892]

Dear Louisiana Channel, I appreciate the work you are doing, capturing artists/photographers for me to have an intimate look at their work and processes. I thank you and my students thank you.

[@thelouisianachannel]

Thank you so much for your comment. It means the world to us! Thanks for watching ❤️

[@elenalovesjelly]

He blew my mind and made everything make so much sense. My mind felt like it got a hug because I feel understood somehow and I also feel like I can understand a little bit better as well.

[@janethughes9589]

Wonderful. It felt like an encounter with goodness and integrity

[@ieyucel]

Wow! Absolutely how I seeking for photography, the life it self. Flowing, streaming, changing... thanks for this episode.

[@THM531]

Thank you Paul, I’ve been looking for these words for a long time

[@AliHasan-hs7dp]

I cry as I look at this documentory. Finding a sort of kinship, i wonder why it makes feel a bucket full of emotions, is it the truth of his art? The best cure of lonliness is the possibility of conspiring with the world around you.

[@EnvoyeeSpeciale-ey9bx]

Tout est dit ! Voici un véritable photographe d'une exceptionnelle acuité ! Merci

[@kodithebear]

Brilliant interview. Thank you

[@vincecosta]

Thank you Louisiana Channel for making these interviews with such great creators. So much to learn. Much appreciated. Cheers!

[@martinhendry]

Shimmer of Possibility is such a peerless piece of work, very simple yet opens a door as it relates to the treatment of time in photos which has not been explored enough by photographers to date. It is something that photography is uniquely capable of.

[@dylandutson1626]

It feels like a rare moment of someone transcending their medium. Like even Photography would be surprised.

[@benjaminfargen]

Love it🙌...thank you for sharing🙏📸💯

[@robertclapsadle8552]

I'm reminded of the paintings of Edward Hopper

[@matureyoungman]

I just played a Goldmund album and looked at his photographs for a solid hour. So evocative

[@OrtoInScatola]

Another beautiful short documentary! Thank you! I love how you composed the interview, with the images and the music.

[@davidxflood]

Delighted to see this, love Paul's work and great to hear his thoughts on the medium!

[@SnowBran]

I appreciate your time and effort making this for us.

[@AlOne-xg6dv]

Very interesting philosophy of life which resonates completely in his photographic journey. Ride with the flow and then what's next ? We will see ...

[@andrewwilson4733]

Great work! i swear every photographer says they used colour when it was unusual ha

[@yeohi]

NG was using color before he was born.

[@andrewwilson4733]

@@yeohi hahaha

[@linjicakonikon7666]

I used color when it was unusual. There, I said it.

[@Diaryplan]

Wonderful video. Thank you

[@omaryohan7694]

Such a nicely edited video, thank you for putting this together and for the talk!

[@thelouisianachannel]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@petermach8635]

Very interesting, I used to work with 5x4 but with some medium format when required, the scarcity of film-stock when out on location forced a great deal of thought and consideration over every image made ..... digital largely killed that by making the raw-material of photography free and unlimited, the balance swung from famine to feast, from contemplation before-hand to editing afterwards.

[@rolf_siggaard]

Love this! ‘Flow of life’ approach and ethos of peace and respect very inspirational. Thanks for sharing.

[@peaou]

Thank you, that was beautifull

[@NABloisROTH]

The A-1 series especially interests me as I get back into photography and find myself shooting automobile and telecommunication infrastructure. Really enjoyed this video.

[@joelk8228]

Great show! Thanks!!

[@crazyduck1254]

very much enjoyed and watched til the end, thanks for sharing, though the sleeping persons were a bit of a leap for me

[@krishnapriyaka3261]

this is amazing

[@bigjohndavid1]

The assertion that naturally awe-inspiring things such as rainbows and sunsets (and autumn leaves) are cliches is truly life-draining and destructive.

[@vnphantom]

As an architectural photographer, I really appreciate Paul's attention to vertical lines composition in his photographs. Yeah, it's kind of our OCDs in architectural photography.

[@devinford2724]

Brilliant perspective. Thank you.

[@firsthandaccount]

Hit the nail on the head. Been putting intention into my work for years and love seeing more people notice this shift

[@eugenehvorostyanov2409]

Really good. Thank you. ❤

[@davidpharo]

Excellent.

[@slimnics]

so cool !

[@louislapointe8996]

I can not but reflect on the work of the great Canadian photographer Jeff Wall for the confluence between the precision of the thought process and the image: so well articulated.

[@aaronthecameraguy]

Very inspiring.

[@allenchurchill6183]

My intentions:: where I go, what I point my lens at, the light at a given time of day, focal length, comp choices, printing and portfolio selection. I am looking for patterns in nature that point to a creator… lots of opportunity for intention. Cheers

[@MikeChudley]

This is incredibly interesting stuff. Loved the video.

[@thelouisianachannel]

Very glad you liked it :)

[@MrGoodpairofshoes]

fantastic, So so true when looking back on street photography it will work more effectively if it's the flow which is recorded, this is the now of then. not a staged image this tells me nothing really well not enough.

[@roastbeefy0weefy]

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in

[@csnerd21]

alright I'm off to go shooting now... have a date with Astaire. 📸

[@andriykovach2736]

Wonderfully beautiful video!! I enjoyed it!

[@TurikoSanShiro222]

on 12:39, that quote... what a complicated way to state the obvious, my god

[@hubbert22]

Really interesting!

[@ollotheollo]

Amazing artist. So excited for this interview

[@void.sawyer]

Perfect way to start my day. 7:46 am

[@TreyVaswal]

8x10 is the format of the Gods.

[@crazyduck1254]

the thing that keeps coming to mind for me is the brilliance of these old large and medium format film cameras. They have the gift of seeing the feelings lingering in a scene that would be rendered useless by modern digital cameras.

[@BlazejMarczak]

Operator have a gift. Cameras, old or new are just recording devices. Fetishizing and romanticizing film cameras is just that.

[@PovlKvols]

❤️

[@gordonbrown5901]

'Now' is where everything happens.

[@R.H12]

it's wonderful and beautiful

[@TiltedElix]

ive been making complete verses on a single soft, it seems everyone of these tutorials i find like to put a single instrunt on each

[@aeon-adv]

Muy bueno!

[@RogerHyam]

Wonderful

[@xwhite2020]

Everyone loves Sean, everyone loves Flea.

[@mariogines9331]

Marketing and advertising is the death of aesthetics

[@bingbongtoysKY]

🤘

[@markames3688]

Encouraging

[@williambolton4698]

This guy's hypocrisy took my breath away. He is clearly an old gentile, London, liberal- left wing, middle-class, punk rocker who hated Thatcher. His quietly spoken bigotry against capitalism is irritating. He mentions all of the assets that the UK government sold off but he fails to point out that they had been run into the ground by civil servants who couldn't run commercial enterprises. The state was paying huge, unaffordable amounts of money to sustain vastly inefficient corporations. The UK was "the sick man of Europe". Adam Smith who Thatcher idolized was Scottish not American. However, the absolute clincher was when he told us that he went into self publishing and independently sold books of his own work. That is exactly what Thatcher wanted people to do and it looks like he has done well out of it. I'm not a fan of Thatcher, I'm not even a Tory but I hate half truths and hypocrisy.

[@supermassivebk]

我书架上好像也有那本砖块封面的摄影集

[@mrenovatio3739]

snapshots

[@sie11pervan]

"It wasn't a very diverse country" No country really was until 60-70 years ago. People have an intrinsic motivation coming from their instinct to choose an in-group bias. Out-group bias will never be preferred as it has to overwrite instinct. It's just the way it is.

[@chrisvalford]

Its amazing how a couple of years difference in age can have such a huge difference in ones impression of their surroundings. Born in late 1960 I would say I was one of the leaders in British creative photography in the 70's. Not interested in the hum drum page 3 or americanised rubbish we were constantly exposed to, we divided our own styles from our own minds, a bit like the punk rockers! Yet another "documentary" where English and European artists from the 70's are ignored just to regurgitate the same old American trash.

[@skwirl828]

Why is the lack of diversity sad? If that’s how it was then that’s how it was. It’s not sad

[@edwardferry8247]

It’s sad how he doesn’t address the long time failure of the neo-liberal project and the damage it’s done to the planet and the human spirit. There feels a middle class nostalgia for working class decay here. The fact he isn’t antagonistic toward Thatcher weighs heavy on the long term value of A1. It’s creator needed to be more than an aesthetic observer trying to prettify the submission of a culture in 10x8 negative grandeur. An important interview in the political context of how images should ultimately be evaluated.

[@ohstanley3058]

Why is it sad if there wasn’t “diversity “ in the club photos? Does every photo book need to have a mix of every race and gender? I like having a record of different cultures and not everything looking like NYC.

[@antonodonnell8238]

Interesting what you said…I feel similar about street/doc photos of San Francisco. I shoot Castro district often for a different flavor.

[@edmoore]

He lives and works in modern new york, the internet exists, he is probably just pre-empting the question he gets within the first few minutes anyway.

[@EduardToews]

Guess it just makes the photo way more interesting to watch

[@wtrbrns]

He's literally talking about how photography can tell us something about our culture and send a message, can't you try to think about what the lack of that diversity means? What reflects of us? Of the places it portraits? That's exactly the art of it. And that's exactly what you have, a record of that culture. And what it says about that culture, may in fact be, sad.

[@ohstanley3058]

@@wtrbrns yes, and I’m saying these photos reflecting a ‘less diverse’ UK club scene does not automatically equal it being sad. Not sure your point here?

[@rynoreeno]

Interesting that Graham found it sad that a place was homegenous and not diverse, I wonder if he has Jewish roots.

[@matthewrideout255]

Beautiful interview. But please don’t Ken burns the photos, it’s so cheesy and distracting.

[@agomodern]

I wonder if he eats beans on toast like my mom's husband.

[@goldfinch2283]

Well, well……

[@johnman5537]

tat

[@borderlands6606]

The A1 photographs were original as art and documentary. The large format street photographs don't work as "street" or "art" photography. Photographic series have to have something compelling about them individually and as a sequence. To me the photographer seems creatively lost and is hoping the saturation and clarity of large format colour film will rescue the image. Or I could simply be missing what Paul Graham is trying to achieve.

[@borderlands6606]

@@cansagarri6749 I should have said individually *or* as a sequence. The sequence has to be more than the sum of the parts.

[@AnonAnono]

What in the vocal fry

[@low3242]

His work is contrary to punk(which is Dionysian) and quiet boring with the basis of boomer core Walker Evans/Eggleston looking at the mundane bs life aspects of working class with their dead ass bougie Apollonian gaze and sensibilities. Martin Parr is way more closer to Punk due to his usage of humor(which is Dionysian) in his photography. The scope of these photographs(outside of UK) are totally limited by their cultural, historical, geographical and political signifiers. At least you can laugh at clever photographs of Martin Parr even if you live outside the UK. The punk of photography(both in spirit and ethic) was in Japan, specifically The Provoke magazine and co. 60s and 70s on the whole were totally crazy years for Japanese photography in general.

[@kenmarten6049]

I think I get the gist of what you're saying. I don't know his work much, but I was quite underwhelmed by the photography I saw presented in this film. There is an insouciant quality to his work that made me feel uncomfortable.

[@low3242]

@John Slye "forced compositions" what a dumb phrase. whenever an artist makes art with his name on it he kill everyone by saying that he knows the truth and everyone should look at it and acknowledge it. no one can never escape this subjectivity and heightened egoism of being an artist. in art we don't look at the work of an artist for "objectivity" but rather how he views the world so every photo is literally a "forced composition" because it's the photographer subjectivity which told to to pick up a certain camera and lens, go to certain location at a certain time, choose a certain subject, choose subject placement, choose the angle so on and so on. but you're are impregnated by this age old disease of representation in straight photography who are apostles of a chimera called "how things are". "deeply cynical and dehumanizing" why he shouldn't be? people are cynical, irrational, self destructive, selfish, deceivers, they dehumanize each other, they kill each other, they bully each other, they steal, they lie etc. that's the other the side of humanity which is also "humanity", only cowards don't want to face and represent this side. Graham's photos are dehumanizing, the way he present his subjects makes me feel like they're Mannequins, he is a one liner photographer. "instead of trying to force a hierarchy of success of success" because whatever art i like is superior, simple as. and i am not """forcing""" hierarchy, it already exists everywhere, that's why you're simping for Graham rather than some no name now dead and forgotten photographer, that's why academics favor few photographers over millions of others.

[@MikeKleinsteuber]

Not a great photographer

[@MontyCantsin5]

He certainly is.

[@lionstandingII]

One word- "Eggleston".....now go back to microbiology.

[@StephaneDesnault]

Thanks for a great video.