Camera Position 89 : Camera Position & Camera Distance

Camera position and camera distance… are they the same thing? As we position the camera, are we also thinking about how we position ourselves relative to the subject? By looking at work by August Sander, the Bechers, Andreas Gursky, Tina Barney and Jessica Todd Harper, we examine ideas about how we distance ourselves from a subject.


Above: Photographs by August Sander, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky and Jessica Todd Harper
Links for this episode:

* Dirk Rosler’s “Japan Exposures” site
* Mary Werner Marien’s book – Photography – A Cultural History