Bryan Formhals of LPV Magazine and photographer and blogger Blake Andrews (of photoblog B) make some hilarious and often oh so true comments on why would-be photographers should ignore the examples of Ansel Adams, Stephen Shore, Garry Winogrand, Alec Soth, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, William Eggleston and, er, Ryan McGinley. Surely they must be joking about him?
10 Photographers You Should Ignore is full of things I wish I’d written – in particular about the revenge of the banal in the comment on Eggleston. And even some of the things that I have written or said before are done far more wittily. Don’t miss it.
“The 10 Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2010/05/14/TenHarmfulNovels/
Whilst too USA centric and not as pointed is still, for those of us who been there, is another article you wish you had read earlier in life.