Cameras capture light, photography then is the pursuit of light to capture. As the tools to capture light become as common as pencils an understanding will come of artists that take photos as different from those who doodle on a pad. Digital photography seems more like sculpture. Great care is taken in selecting a block of light to work with, it is isolated from the rest of the light by the camera, in much the same way as wood sculptor separates the right piece of wood from the forest with a saw. The artist then chips away at the block taking away that which obscures the from of their vision leaving behind a more pure and expressive representation of that idea.
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