Thread 4466844

>The theory of photography can be learned in an hour and the elements of practising it in a day... What cannot be learned is the sense of light, an artistic feeling for the effects of varying luminosity and combinations of it, the application of this or that effect to the features which confront the artist in you. What can be learned even less is the moral grasp of the subject — that instant understanding which puts you in touch with the model, helps you to sum him up, guides you to his habits, his ideas and his character and enables you to produce, not an indifferent reproduction, a matter of routine or accident such as any laboratory assistant could achieve, but a really convincing and sympathetic likeness, an intimate portrait.
Was Nadar right? Could you really learn the basics of photography in an hour? And the rest of it is just artistic talent?

>>4466844 (OP)
Yes, all true. I have been shilling this idea on this shithole from years. I wasn't aware that Nadar said it so nicely. Thank you sharing this OP.

Nadar is kinda overrated doe but I like his Catacombs photos.

>>4466844 (OP)
>Was Nadar right?
Yes.

>Could you really learn the basics of photography in an hour? And the rest of it is just artistic talent?
That's not what he said, retard.

The basic theory of photography can be thoroughly explained to a ten year-old in twenty minutes and learning 90% of what you'll ever need about how to use a camera - especially a modern digital camera - well enough to photograph almost anything doesn't take much practice or theoretical knowledge. Taking good photos consists of everything that isn't taking the photo.

>>4466878
He also said that tbqh
>La photographie est une découverte merveilleuse, une science qui occupe les intelligences les plus élevées, un art qui aiguise les esprits les plus sagaces - et dont l'application est à la portée du dernier des imbéciles.
>Photography is a wonderful discovery, a science which occupies the highest intellects, an art that sharpens the wisest minds - and its practice is available to the worst of imbeciles
This board is a painfully good proof of that

This quote was more about the relation between the photographer, the light and the model/subject. Basically snapshits vs good photos.
>« La théorie photographique s’apprend en une heure ; les premières notions de pratique, en une journée... Ce qui ne s’apprend pas, je vais vous le dire : c’est le sentiment de la lumière, c’est l’appréciation artistique des effets produits par les jours divers et combinés… Ce qui s’apprend encore moins c’est l’intelligence morale de votre sujet, c’est ce tact rapide qui vous met en communication avec le modèle, et vous permet de donner, non pas... une indifférente reproduction plastique à la portée du dernier servant de laboratoire, mais la ressemblance la plus familière, la plus favorable, la ressemblance intime. C’est le côté psychologique de la photographie, le mot ne me semble pas trop ambitieux »

>>4466999
>Photography is a wonderful discovery, a science which occupies the highest intellects, an art that sharpens the wisest minds - and its practice is available to the worst of imbeciles
LMAO

FUCKING BASED

>>4466999
>>4467000
LMAOOOOOO

>>4466999
>He also said that tbqh
Is this available in English translation?

>>4467010
I translated it directly right below

>>4466999
of course, he's french, so to him, any photo of a woman is good and everything else is a snapshit

the french brain is stored in the penis

>>4467012
Thanks for that but I mean whole essay. What is source of these quotes?

>>4467013
He took all types of photos.

>>4467014
« Profession de foi » of Nadar, in La Tribune judiciaire (1857), cited by Peeters (Benoît), Les Métamorphoses de Nadar, Auby-sur-Semois, Marot, 1994, p. 44-46.
Good luck finding a translation

>>4467017
Do you have more spicy quotes?
Also can you write something about the importance of Nadar in Photography's history?

>>4467019
nah sorry I don't know much about him, I simply googled it m8

>>4467013
He also took photos of hermaphroditism

>>4467027
how can a man be this based holy shit

>>4466844 (OP)
Yeah, sure. And you can also learn the principles of drawing in an hour and get surprisingly far in a single day. It is quite a bit easier with photography though.

At any rate, in both cases to learn how to see and translate what you see into a medium the way you see it (or conversely to learn to see the way the camera or the pen "sees") is the difficult bit that can take years to master, but that also clicks for some people relatively instantaneously.

>>4467083
>Amelia Van Buren
What the fuck? Her photography is kino.