Showing posts with label the other side (of the lens). Show all posts
Showing posts with label the other side (of the lens). Show all posts

27 March 2007

the other side (of the lens)


For the past week at the Chicago Photography Center we've been talking a lot about the other side of the lens. We've been discussing what it feels like to be photographed. How odd it is to be captured.

I like to think that I always have the strangeness of photography—the conversion from three to two dimensions, the attention given to a part of a second of a life—in mind. I like to believe that I have special putting-myself-in-your-shoes power. But after an hour of being photographed yesterday, I'm not so sure I've ever worn these shoes before.

Here are a few people who have done so recently (for me!).