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Bryan Formals is a photographer based in Queens, NY, and the editor of LPV Magazine and Photographs on the Brain . The following conversa…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/04/formhals.html
I use the star system. Just looking at A photos is so boring. I don’t even understand that logic. It’s this hierarchical thinking that I find counter intuitive. I look at the whole pile. Good is only in relation to the other photographs around them. A photos compared to what? In relation to my other photos, they might be MY best. But are they better than Eggleston? OK. No. So are they still A photos? Should I even bother showing them if they’re not better than Winogrand, or Eggleston or Koudelka?