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dies ist keine wand
When Henry Fox Talbot patented one of the first photographic processes, he named it Calotype. It’s from the Greek kalos tupos — beautiful impression.
It’s the perfect name, because we photograph what we find beautiful. Even when we photograph something mundane or banal — ugly, even — we photograph it because we recognize a sort of beauty in it. Others may not see the beauty, and we may not use the term beautiful to describe it. We may call it ‘interesting,’ or say it ‘attracts the eye.’ We may even fall back on the purposely vague ‘I don’t know — I just felt the need to photograph it.’
But the truth is we’ve seen something, and that something made a beautiful impression on us, and by photographing it we hope to share that impression with others. And that’s why we’re all looking at this wall, that window, those electrical outlets, that beautiful stretch of cord.
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