{"id":231,"date":"2008-03-07T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-03-07T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:40:44","slug":"phillip-jones-griffiths-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Jones Griffiths Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I have to say thanks to J\u00f6rg Colberg<\/a> of Conscientious <\/em>for alerting me to the Aperture interview<\/a> with Philip Jones Griffiths<\/strong>, I find his comment on the piece pretty trivial and a little unpleasant. Whatever Jones Griffiths may say about photography doesn’t make his pictures one tiny bit less great. He would remain one of the greatest photojournalists of the 2oth century – and as well as the slide show in the Aperture Interview you can see more of his work on Magnum<\/a>, including Vietnam Inc. <\/a><\/p>\n

Colberg finds him “narrow-minded and outright disappointing (apart from intellectually lacking<\/em>)”. Looking at what he writes and what Jones Griffiths says, I think that largely means that they come at photography from different perspectives. If Colberg can’t work out what Jones Griffiths was saying – and his comments suggest he didn’t – its a failure on his part .<\/p>\n

For me – as I think with Jones Griffiths (certainly my favourite Welsh photographer) – the power of photography as a distinctive medium comes from its curious relation with reality, something that has been explored at great length but not always much light by many. For me it certainly isn’t something limited to photojournalism – and is even more important in much documentary photography, and also in much photography that comes under the rather vague category of fine art. But there are certainly works which although produced with the help of a camera don’t seem to me to be a part of the photographic tradition and that I don’t feel it appropriate to think of as photographs, although I may still appreciate them as art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I have to say thanks to J\u00f6rg Colberg of Conscientious for alerting me to the Aperture interview with Philip Jones Griffiths, I find his comment on the piece pretty trivial and a little unpleasant. Whatever Jones Griffiths may say about photography doesn’t make his pictures one tiny bit less great. He would remain one … Continue reading Phillip Jones Griffiths Interview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}