About stereophotos

© Jacques-Henri Lartigue -Chorus Line

Most important about stereophotos
1 - the impression of depth;
2 - to record the totality of an experience;
3 - one is drawn into the picture frame, becomming part of the event photographed; a much stronger emotional response tot the stereo than to the flat image; to scan the rest of the space; to look deeper, that doesn't occur at all with the two dimensional image.
(text from William Hibbert Hidden Depths - Jacques-Henri Lartigue)

Is photography an art? by Josef Sudek

"Is photography an art?"
Josef Sudek answered:
"It isn't. It's a nice craft requiring a certain amount of taste. It can't be art, because it depends entirely on things that already existed before it and apart from it, that is, the world around us."

photo of Josef Sudek, photographer unknown

Sad Landscapes by Josef Sudek

© Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek about Sad Landscapes:

"It's a sort of a sad landscape. I don't like doing merry countryside. Because cheerful is always cheerful and always the same. But a sad landscape got a lot of variations. More sad and less sad and even more sad and you can do something with that...

At the moment, I've got a couple of photographs here for the Most landscape cycle; they've been waiting to be processed for a good six months now. If I'd made the positive straight away, I'd probably have been disappointed; the view of the actual countryside was still too vivid in my memory now the real experience has faded away can I find out how the shot will work for someone who wasn't looking at the real thing with me. I think that with the photographs I make, haste is a bad advisor."