Wide-angle effects are not the only means of photographic impact. In fact this gimmick is sometimes becoming a bore. Even converging verticals -however effective they may be on occasion -are not exactly a hallmark of impressive pictorialism. As a result of various technical requirements and restrictions, televison has in this field produced a certain visual style of some impact for a mass medium. But its shooting limitations cannot in the long run make it a model for professional photography. In 1933 I studied at a leading photographic school. The current rage at the time was Oskar Barnack’s Leica idea.
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‘I love the black cloth’ -a well known photographer recently told us -‘because it hides me from talkative and interfering customers. And if one of them insists on seeing the image on the ground glass, I smoke out the intruder from underneath the cloth by lighting a cigar.’
From every point of view, image observation of every single shot is obviously vital for the photographer.