Groover on Technique

JAN GROOVER: Technical prowess? I–I know as much as I need to know and no more. 

I’m interested in seeing the thing. 

I could tell you how a view camera works. I could probably explain it to you, but I only know that from experience. I knew nothing about it before I bought one. I had some wild concept that you could change space, which you can. But once I bought the–once I bought the view camera, everything else was just eyeballing it. 

If the thing doesn’t look the way I want it to look, I’ll try something else.

the axis of the art world has tilted over the last 30 years.

Cornerstone Collections of Photography are held by:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Getty Museum,

MFA Houston,

Art Institute of Chicago,

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,

LACMA,

SFMOMA

MoMA