Joshua Chuang: What is Photography?

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What Is Photography?, Fine Art Photography, Print Photography

Photography is like life, but at its best, it’s life seen better. August Sander once spoke about the universality of photography, about the advantage it has of being instantly perceived. And with that, it can either deceive or tell a penetrating truth. Many decades later, Philip-Lorca diCorcia said something to the effect that photography is a foreign language that everyone thinks they understand. I think both are right. What is seductive about the medium—the sense that photographs can be immediately comprehended—is also a quality that the most affecting, enduring pictures find a way to overcome.

I’m interested in a photography that stops you dead in your tracks, as well as pictures that will deepen your understanding of the world, and yourself, the more and the longer you look at them.

Joshua Chuang, Head and Senior Curator in the Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, New York Public Library

Photograph by © Cory Rice

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