Some Photographic Myths

This reading was interesting because of the concentration of it to disprove myths about photography and people's misconceptions. A lot of these misconceptions were things i have heard or experienced and overall i agreed with the opinions of the authors. I really liked the part where the author spoke of the mysticism of art that is mostly just bullshit. I could not agree more with that, as a person on the way to developing a career in the arts it is both frustrating and difficult to sift through the bullshit and the integrity of art. I liked that this article was very real, it had a down-to-earth approach. I really enjoyed the quote: "the immature artist imitates; the mature artist steals. " I also really liked the section titled "The it-has-been-done-before-syndrome" because it was all about the misconception that everything has been photographed before, therefore it's not worth photographing again. this was reassuring because it is something I often think about.