The gesture of photography is different from the gestures of the other visual arts; I hope to show that photography is no less complex, difficult, and visual. Indeed, my belief is that in many ways fine photography is more purely intellectual, purely visual, because the gestures involved are less connected to hand gestures but much more connected to intense observation, to harder seeing.
Gretchen Garner, “The Photographic Gesture” in The New Art Examiner (October 1976).
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Intense Observation … Harder Seeing
