{"id":231610,"date":"2020-05-07T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=231610"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:01:26","slug":"why-are-photographers-so-insecure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/why-are-photographers-so-insecure\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Photographers so Insecure?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My thoughts and suspicions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/erickim\/episodes\/Why-Are-Photographers-so-Insecure-edo5eb\">Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/erickim\/embed\/episodes\/Why-Are-Photographers-so-Insecure-edo5eb\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='500' height='281' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/CYGWuG1q?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1674852142'><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Why Are Photographers so Insecure?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  Perhaps because many photographers are closet painters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Are Photographers so Insecure?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eBL3WpRumIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Why-Are-Photographers-so-Insecure.MP4.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Why Are Photographers so Insecure?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why did Henri Cartier Bresson give up photography?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Secret penis envy of painters, sculptors, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is it that <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/19\/why-did-henri-cartier-bresson-give-up-photography\/\">Henri Cartier Bresson<\/a> gave up photography towards the end of his life and decided to pursue painting instead? Simple &#8212; he wanted to be a painter all along! But (unfortunately), he was too good at photo. This meant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He became a prisoner of his own success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts and suspicions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Why-Are-Photographers-so-Insecure-MP4-mp3-image-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231610"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231622,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231610\/revisions\/231622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}