A Family Thing

 One of the few times I’m in the photo.

My kids are sooooo used to having me photograph them that, if they realize what I’m up to,  it usually results in one of a few faces… screwy face, funny face, not again face, or mad face.  There are other faces that show up, for sure, but those are the fun ones.  I often tell our clients that my kids are my worst subjects.  As the English proverb states, familiarity breeds contempt.   But held within these attempts to ruin the image contain the possibility for a  revealing portrait.  Like The Three Princes of Serendip.



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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955

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