Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Avoiding Textual Photography


I will not describe the different ways of using the cape, the gaonera, the mariposa, the farol, or the older ways, the cambios de rodillas, the galleos, the serpentinas in the detail I have described the veronica because a description in words cannot enable you to identify them before you have seen them as a photograph can. Instantaneous photography has been brought to such a point that it is silly to try and describe something that can be conveyed instantly, as well as studied, in a picture.

EXCERPT FROM

Hemingway, Ernest. "Death in the Afternoon." Scribner, 1960. iBooks.
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