New York Photography Blog - Volume I

The two students came up with the next big thing: a new search engine that would work with distributed computing and would be able to rank pages based on relevance and popularity. The computer instructions would be tamper proof. You couldn’t buy your way to the top.

Now in the history of the mankind - absolute power has always corrupted - absolutely. However, how would a set of computer instructions set into robotic crawlers withstand this edict.

The f++ company quickly became larger and more powerful than any other software company. f++ was the web.

The f++ robots encircled the world at the speed of light, indexing physical books, blogs, movies, emails, desktops - and just about anything that could be used to display ads.

One day, the founders shocked the world when they retired and went off to do charitable work. The next didn’t have the high moral goals of the founders.

It’s true, the second generation had been picked by the founders - but here the founders made a bad mistake and were fooled by the seconds.

And so - suddenly the world found itself depending on an entity that knew everything about everybody - high and low. The founders had discovered that they could become even more powerful if they used the knowledge which the robot crawlers had attained…

“Garry Winogrand was born in New York in 1928 and grew up in the then predominantly Jewish working-class area of the Bronx, where his father was a leather worker.”
Now where exactly was he born? In one interview he says that he grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. At any rate - it explains a lot.

Here’s a great Winogrand quote to live by:

“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”

I can only tell you - that is how I’ve always felt. And it’s the reason that I’m often unsure about how something is going to work out after I’ve photographed it. The big Ansel thing is pre-visualization - which I can understand - esp. when you’re lugging your 8 x 10 view camera up the mountain. New York shooting is different. Alot of it is finding out what the thing looks like based on how you photographed it. There really is no such thing as - well this is what it will look like because no matter how much you do it - the eyes, the brain - they don’t normally see things with a frame around it in two dimensions. You just don’t. Whatever lens you use - you are always transforming what you think you see.