The Liberated Camera: Part I

By John Kennerdell “I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with photography. It’s a one-eyed man looking through a little ‘ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?” —David Hockney “An extension of my eye,” Cartier-Bresson famously called his…

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I’d like to talk about another approach: the handheld camera as an extension of the hand, or simply as an unobtrusive device off to the side as we engage directly with the scene before us, both eyes wide open.