Hi, so lately I’ve been going through a photography block for months and because of saturation of images on social media like Instagram, I was wondering where do you find like genuinely good photography to look at? You know something that really resonates with you and sparks your love for photography again…
Have you read On Photography by Susan Sontag?
If not, it’s a great analysis of how photography came to dominate our visual culture in a very short space of time, and fundamentally changed the way we see. Even though it was written in 1977, her observations feel absolutely applicable to the feeling of Instagram overload. She names a lot of great photographers, and talks pretty insightfully about the reasons people take photographs, the unique things they can do, and their relationship to the truth. That extra context really helped me appreciate their work.