At every opportunity, I try to talk about what photography seems to me most important, though usually not enough for others to understand. This is no great discovery, but more often I get the confirmation my understanding of photography. That is, not necessarily wrong, but I can not say for sure I was right - it will show the time, perhaps. In his own photographs, I try to talk about the mentality, not shown directly, not in a literal way and thus brought back to the aesthetics. It seems to me that the record of the spiritual condition of Polish society is the most important. The book
Tony Ray-Jones by Russell Roberts we got today, contains a fragment of English speech for the documentary "Creative Camera" (1968):
"My goal is to tell something with the spirit and mentality of the British, their habits and life path of irony, which do different things, partly by tradition and partly by the nature of their environment. For me, the 'English way of life' is something very special and rather humorous, as I write from my particular point of view, before it becomes more Americanized. We are a very important stage in our history, in terms of reducing the prison island, or spirituality and, as noted by De Gauile, left naked. " Ray-Jones returned from the USA, where he studied with Alexey Brodovitcha, realized how very quickly realize that you need to deal with the English customs and present it in context, because the quality turned out to be a myth. In another speech would deal ruthlessly with the area of \u200b\u200bcommercial photography: "(...) For me, photography is an exciting and personal way to respond to their environment, and I regret that many people do not treat photography as a means of self-expression, preferring to sell their extensive commercial world of journalism and advertising ". How it fits perfectly in the situation of admiration for the World Press Photo ...
work of Tony Ray-Jones is without a doubt one of the most interesting and important ways set out in the history of photography.
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