Michael Fioritto

Archive for February 2010

On being sharp-eyed and tender-hearted

Since the beginning of the century, there have been sharp-eyed and tender-hearted photographers, photographers whose aim is not to decorate the walls of museums for their own personal satisfaction, but rather to show through the use of that developer of truth which is film, how man can be a menace to mankind, to children, how [...]

Illumination – or just light if you are like most mortals

On the bus this morning I was thinking about the importance of light in my photography. Much of the work I have done lately is focused in one geographic location – an older school building on the south side of Chicago. I’m pretty lucky really. It has windows in most rooms so it gets some [...]

What is photography?

From Berenice Abbott:
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in [...]