When I was younger I was always staring the world with the maximum curiosity, and I always found very interesting images. After that the need to share this images with the people around me came and then I realized that photography was the medium that will help me to do that.
When I was doing the research for the blog I came up on Arnold Newman’s words “We do not take pictures with our cameras but with our hearts and minds” a phrase that explains the source of my love for photography and I suppose for Newman as well.
Arnold Newman started his career in Miami as a painter, after a point in his life moved to New York and started taking pictures to raise some money. The medium of photography attracted him and he decides to open a photographic studio and started to work as free launcher for several well-known magazines. His passion was to take pictures of people as he called it. The word portraiture sounded strong as his stated in one of his interviews. His very famous portraits of the very famous people that photographed in his life are instantly recognizable as his work. By the time he evolve a new style that came to be known as “environmental portraiture” which placed the subject in a carefully composed setting, most of the times this was the work environment of the subject, to capture the essence of their life and work. With his stick attitude he posed his subjects until a relaxed expression indicated to Newman that the subject was approaching the look of permanence that he was striving for. So his work is not only recognizable as his, but stays interesting and powerful through time.
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