Anodyne
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
 

John Latta, Clouds, 2006

"Vying amongst treetops and other earthbound debris in an attempt to photograph the skies, I think of a story a bookseller named Garvin handed along. Common breed of wingbag used-book dealer, opinion-plagued, borne up astride an oceanic font of 'useless and pointless knowledge.' He related how one photographer—W. Eugene Smith is who I recall—up on a house ladder for a shoot of something or other, could see exactly the angle needed for the shot, out there, in mid-air. So, with camera, he jumped, fired the shutter, got the snap, and fell, fracturing a leg in the fall."
- posted by cjb @ 9:51 AM


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