{"id":1151,"date":"2012-07-26T13:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2012-07-28T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T22:06:41","slug":"the-nature-of-photographs-a-primer-by-steven-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Photographs &#8211; A Primer, by Steven Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/bookstore\/citation.cfm?catalog=PI189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1152\" title=\"Stephen Shore, &quot;The Nature of Photographs&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Stephen-Shore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Stephen-Shore.jpg 531w, http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Stephen-Shore-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a neat, succinct, and poignant proposition by Steven Shore on the essential elements, &#8220;levels,&#8221; in photography that are unique to the medium. The three levels are:<\/p>\n<p>Physical Level<br \/>\nDepictive Level<br \/>\nMental Level<\/p>\n<p>The levels are used as tools in looking at photographs and understanding them as physical objects. It is a contemplation of how a moment becomes a photograph and helps us see photographs separate from a reality they may depict.<br \/>\nThe book grew out of a course Mr. Shore taught at Bard College and it reads almost like a slide presentation.<br \/>\nOr a poem.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m including a quote below from the book &#8211; something to think about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The artist starts with a blank page and must fill it. The photographer starts with the clutter of the world and must simplify it.&#8221; <em>Stephen Shore<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fullcircle-social-links\" style=\"display: block;\"><div class=\"fullcircle-linkshare\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmonikaphoto.com%2F%3Fp%3D1151\" class=\"fb_share_button\"  target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Facebook<\/a><\/div><div class=\"fullcircle-linkshare\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=The+Nature+of+Photographs+%26%238211%3B+A+Primer%2C+by+Steven+Shore + http%3A%2F%2Fmonikaphoto.com%2F%3Fp%3D1151\" class=\"twitter\"  target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Twitter<\/a><\/div><\/div><div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div><div class=\"pp-fb-like-btn-wrap\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/?p=1151\" data-share=\"true\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a neat, succinct, and poignant proposition by Steven Shore on the essential elements, &#8220;levels,&#8221; in photography that are unique to the medium. The three levels are: Physical Level Depictive Level Mental Level The levels are used as tools in looking at photographs and understanding them as physical objects. It is a contemplation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[26,37,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monikaphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}