Ghirri said Louis, in the course of his photography classes , that " the photographer no longer has a passive role , a performer, but also becomes a designer, a person who participates in the drafting of a communication project in the sense understood much larger than in the past ". Ghirri words which indicated the collective work made by photographers and writers and merged with Explorations on the Via Emilia .
Ghirri In these few lines could clearly define what it meant to him doing photography and a photographer . On the one hand, the photographer passive, to act as executor and the other, the photographer, designer whom he named, for reasons of symmetry, focus.
With this idea in my head I tried to reflect around this strange pair of opposites and in the end I found myself in his hands two lists that show what might be the characteristics of the active photographer and the photographer as passive.
Photographer person (or player)
It 's the casual photographer, collector, holiday, Sunday (intensity and spirit, not by availability of time: great Mario Giacomelli photographed only on Sundays). It 's the only photographer who shot the episodic, like a solitary word, dropped in the silence of a walk. It 's the photographer who does not seek his own voice, and look, but is limited (he insists) to reproduce photography charges proven, safe and approved. E ', in short, a mere executor of the gaze of others : his eyes, the reality is a score that does not belong. And 'the music of someone else.
Photographer active (or designer)
It 's the photographer who collects images to build their own sentences, which has a syntactic awareness of what he is doing, that is: look , selects, reproduces, pages, size, approaches. In other words: up.
The photographer designer, for example, for a portfolio shoot, snaps pictures with which other thinking the photo of that moment can speak; triggered by sensing what other image should be sought.
The photographer, designer, active, is not limited to this, but is projected continuously in a hypothetical installation of their work. The shot of the photographer is no longer active "enforcement" because it becomes director of his own personal layout and representation of the world.
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