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\nmore 2008 pictures<\/a><\/p>\n
Photographically it brought to mind two people, both in their different ways important teachers, although for me only at second-hand.<\/p>\n
Alexey Brodovitch<\/em> was art director of Harper’s Bazaar<\/em> from 1938 to 1958, and among the photographers he nurtured there were Irving Penn, Richard Avedon<\/em> and Hiro<\/em>, while his classes in New York (and New Haven) drew Diane Arbus<\/em> and Tony Ray Jones<\/em> and a whole generation of New York based photographers. One of the many whose work you may not know well, but has a great web site with work from 60 years of photography is George S Zimbel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brodivitch used to insist to photographers “Surprise me!<\/em>” and told them that if they looked into the viewfinder and saw something they had seen before not to take the picture.<\/p>\n The other person who came to mind was Garry Winogrand<\/em> (and it was Zimbel who turned Winogrand on to photography), whose work has always interested me greatly. Again I never met him, though I’ve used film of him in teaching (and a piece in The Online Photographer<\/a><\/em> last summer included links to a TV video on him from 1982 and the recollections of O C Garza<\/em><\/a> who studied with him at the University of Texas in the mid 70’s – both well worth looking at.)<\/p>\n In the video, one of several comments by Winogrand is “You don’t learn anything from repeating what you know … in effect \u0085 so I keep trying to make it uncertain<\/em>”<\/p>\n Saturday with ‘Free Tibet<\/em>‘, too many things seemed familiar and I had problems with making things uncertain as I struggled with what Winogrand described as “the battle of form versus content<\/em>.” But too many of my images were merely safe – and as he also said, “Most everything I do doesn’t quite make it. Hopefully you’re risking failing every time you make a frame<\/em>.” Perhaps as usual I wasn’t risking enough.<\/p>\n You can see more of my pictures from 2008 on My London Diary<\/a>, as well as some from previous years:<\/p>\n Free Tibet: 2000<\/strong> Free Tibet 2001<\/strong> Free Tibet 2003<\/strong> Free Tibet 2005<\/strong> Free Tibet 2006 Free Tibet 2007<\/strong> Looks like I had a year off in 2004!<\/p>\n Peter Marshall\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday morning started for me opposite the Chinese Embassy, where supporters of a free Tibet were demonstrating on the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising. I haven’t photographed there all of those 49 years, but it sometimes begins to feel a little like it, and this and the ensuing march through the West End certainly … Continue reading D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu?<\/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":[3,8,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-history","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.mylondondiary.co.uk\/2000\/03\/0030122s.jpg\")
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\n![](\"http:\/\/www.mylondondiary.co.uk\/2001\/03\/01-301-65.jpg\")
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\nFree Tibet 2002<\/strong>
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.mylondondiary.co.uk\/2002\/03\/02318-63.jpg\")
\nmore 2002 pictures<\/a><\/p>\n
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.mylondondiary.co.uk\/2003\/03\/slides\/030308_n061.jpg\")
\nmore 2003 pictures<\/a><\/p>\n
\n![](\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/03\/12\/050312_n246.jpg\")
\n more 2005 pictures <\/a><\/p>\n
\n![](\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/03\/11\/060311_d0488.jpg\")
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\n more 2006 pictures<\/a><\/p>\n
\n![](\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2007\/03\/10\/070310-0266.jpg\")
\n more 2007 pictures<\/a><\/p>\n