Reading Response: The Photographer's eye , Light and Lens:Photography in the digital age

Both of these essays helped expand my knowledge on photography as a whole and its history in particular. John Szarkowski, author of The photographers eye, started his essay with talking about the radical difference that photography has from all other forms of art. It is completely it own thing. Photography can be practiced by thousands who share no common training or tradition. The author talks about the immortality of the captured moment and how once the picture is taken it is now in the past. I love how he  said that photographs not instant but are time exposures which vary in duration.

 Robert Hirsch, author of  Light and Lens: Photography in the digital age, wrote more about the history of photography and its overall progression. I was so interested in the evolution of the photographic imaging. I though that it was so cool to learn about how past photographers altered their images before the invention of things like Photoshop. I thought it was so interesting how the miniature painters painted directly on the daguerreotypes and calotypes. I cant imagine physically painting each individual picture trying to work on every little detail on such a small canvas. It put things into perspective on how much easier photography is today.