Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.