I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
I think a few pictures at a time.
Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.