Some people like a trophy of the trophy: Better trophy photos
What about press photography there is an awful lot of trophy hunting there?
Yes, thanxs James, a perfect link should have thought to link to them!
Trophies
"Photography is clearly all that hunting is, except the bullet, even down to the jargon; and the photographs are treated exactly like stuffed heads." - Alistair Graham, Gardeners of Eden
Ralph Gibson
"Obviously there are far more areas of black than white in my vision, and the space that I'm so interested in looking is to be gotten through my use of Black as a POSITIVE space rather than a negative - (The way most photographs dict[tate]"?
Page from Gibson's diary describing his experience press checking the 'Somnambulist'.
Source: archives of the Center for Creative Photography (Univ of Arizona), I am the fortunate owner of a book, describing the best of these archive, called 'Original Sources'.
'Original Sources' has lots of interesting and rare info, including diary entries, collected pamphlets, letters and paraphernalia that reveal otherwise hidden motives and ideas behind the photographers and their images.
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