What is the motive force which induces us to photograph?
Some ideas:
- Desire to immortalize a moment. Great joy and thanksgiving towards reality.
- Desire to create visual art works. Photography as faster and more efficient than painting or drawing.
- Desire to play. Photography as fun visual gymnastics if shapes, colors, forms, compositions. To photograph is like playing a musical instrument.
- Desire to share our perspective and viewpoint with others. To signal and educate others what we consider beautiful. The photographer as the value judge of beauty.