Micky Allan (1944, 1 April – )
Lázaro Blanco (1938, 1 April – )
Etienne Carjat (1828, 1 April – 1906)
Max Ernst (1891, 2 April – 1976, 2 April)
Nigel Henderson (1917, 1 April – 1985, 15 May)
Daniel Masclet (1892, 1 April – 1969, 16 September)
József Pécsi (1889, 1 April – 1956, 7 October)
Martine Franck (1938, 2 April – 2012, 16 August)
Stella Snead (1910, 2 April – 2006, 18 March)
Émile Zola (1840, 2 April – 1902, 29 September)
James Wheeler Woodford Birch (1826, 3 April – 1875, 2 November)
Josef Breitenbach (1896, 3 April – 1984, 7 October)
Frank Gohlke (1942, 3 April – )
Bastienne Schmidt (1961, 3 April – )
Francesca Woodman (1958, 3 April – 1981, 19 January)
Ian Berry (1934, 4 April – )
Donald Blumberg (1935, 4 April – )
Max Dupain (1911, 4 April – 1992, 27 July)
William Henry Jackson (1843, 4 April – 1942, 30 June)
Herbert Bayer (1900, 5 April – 1985, 30 September)
Milton Miller (1830, 5 April – 1899, 14 January)
Giacomo Brogi (1822, 6 April – 1881, 29 November)
Harold E. Edgerton (1903, 6 April – 1990, 4 January)
David Moore (1927, 6 April – 2003)
Nadar (1820, 6 April – 1910, 21 March)
Edward W. Trevelyan (1881, 6 April – 1947, 10 April)
Rommert Boonstra (1942, 7 April – )
Neil Folberg (1950, 7 April – )
Arthur Allen Lewis (1873, 7 April – 1957, 20 March)
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry James Barr (1815, 8 April – 1881, 17 May)
Jules Itier (1802, 8 April – 1877, 13 October)
Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885, 8 April – 1971, 17 April)
Clarence H. White (1871, 8 April – 1925, 8 July)
René Burri (1933, 9 April – 2014, 20 October)
Art Kane (1925, 9 April – 1995, 21 February)
Robb Kendrick (1963, 9 April – )
Frederick Kilgour (1841, 9 April – 1919, 26 March)
Hansel Mieth (1909, 9 April – 1998)
Eadweard Muybridge (1830, 9 April – 1904, 8 May)
Karl Pietzner (1853, 9 April – 1927, 24 November)
Jennifer Shaw (1972, 9 April – )
Sander Steins (1973, 9 April – )
Mark Strizic (1928, 9 April – 2012, 8 December)
Cornell Capa (1918, 10 April – 2008, 23 May)
Risto Lounema (1939, 10 April – )
Edward David Ritton (1823, 10 April – 1892, 9 December)
Marc Yankus (1957, 10 April – )
Joel Grey (1932, 11 April – )
Spring Hurlbut (1952, 11 April – )
Macedonio Melloni (1801, 11 April – 1854, 11 August)
Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill (1814, 11 April – 1891, 19 July)
Imogen Cunningham (1883, 12 April – 1976, 24 June)
Earl L. Mohr (1919, 12 April – 1974, 27 January)
Christian Vogt (1946, 12 April – )
Allen A. Dutton (1922, 13 April – )
Brian Griffin (1948, 13 April – )
Alexander Edwin Caddy (1846, 14 April – 1904, 29 February)
Henry Dixon (1820, 14 April – 1893, 20 January)
Robert Doisneau (1912, 14 April – 1994, 1 April)
E.O. Hoppé (1878, 14 April – 1972, 9 December)
Anna Bohdziewicz (1950, 15 April – )
George Platt Lynes (1907, 15 April – 1955, 6 December)
Henk Thijs (1945, 15 April – )
Adam Clark Vroman (1856, 15 April – 1916, 24 July)
Thurston Hopkins (1913, 16 April – 2014, 26 October)
Jerome Liebling (1924, 16 April – 2011, 27 July)
Paul Martin (1864, 16 April – 1944, 7 July)
Kees Scherer (1920, 16 April – 1993, 19 January)
Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951, 16 April – )
Giovanni di Mola (1968, 17 April – )
Eliot Elisofon (1911, 17 April – 1973, 7 April)
Sherrie Levine (1947, 17 April – )
Michal Macku (1963, 17 April – )
Wynn Bullock (1902, 18 April – 1975, 16 November)
Charles Chevalier (1804, 18 April – 1859, 21 November)
Sara Facio (1932, 18 April – )
Frederick Kruger (1831, 18 April – 1888, 15 February)
Harold Burdekin (1899, 19 April – 1944, 22 July)
William Klein (1928, 19 April – )
Aimé Laussedat (1819, 19 April – 1907, 18 March)
Humphrey Spender (1910, 19 April – 2005, 11 March)
Frank Ward (1949, 19 April – )
Mario Cravo Neto (1947, 20 April – 2009)
Patrick Dolique (1949, 20 April – )
Captain Allan Newton Scott (1824, 20 April – 1870, 5 January)
Eve Arnold (1912, 21 April – 2012, 4 January)
James Higginson (1957, 21 April – )
Frances Cooke Macgregor (1906, 21 April – 2001, 24 December)
Watanabe Yoshio (1907, 21 April – 2000)
Alphonse Bertillon (1853, 22 April – 1914, 13 February)
R.B. Bontecou (1824, 22 April – 1907)
Laura Gilpin (1891, 22 April – 1979, 30 November)
Colonel William Henry Mason (1830, 23 April – 1910, 1 July)
Lee Miller (1907, 23 April – 1977, 21 July)
Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski (1949, 23 April – )
Dallett Fuguet (1868, 24 April – 1933, 27 December)
Jan Groover (1943, 24 April – 2012, 1 January)
Laszlo Layton (1959, 24 April – )
Suda Issei (1940, 24 April – )
Charles Sheridan Blackwood Walton (1829, 24 April – 1889, 15 July)
Cy Twombly (1928, 25 April – )
Robert Adamson (1821, 26 April – 1848, 18 January)
Werner Bischof (1916, 26 April – 1954, 16 May)
Zbigniew Dlubak (1924, 26 April – )
Karol Kállay (1926, 26 April – )
Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815, 27 April – 1897, 21 May)
Bruno Chalifour (1956, 27 April – )
Peter Keetman (1916, 27 April – 2005, 3 August)
Julius Adolph Paul Kuntze (1848, 27 April – 1905, 25 October)
Samuel F.B. Morse (1791, 27 April – 1872, 2 April)
Jack Welpott (1923, 27 April – 2007, 24 November)
Horst Faas (1933, 28 April – 2012, 10 May)
Frank Horvat (1928, 28 April – )
Werner Mantz (1901, 28 April – 1983)
Erich Salomon (1886, 28 April – 1944, 7 July)
Mariën Marcel (1920, 29 April – 1993, 19 September)
William Bradford (1823, 30 April – 1892, 25 April)
Georg Gerster (1928, 30 April – )
Albrecht Meydenbauer (1834, 30 April – 1921, 15 November)
Detailing
Reality is detailed. Mostly. Most of our time. This detail is outside us, we are a part of it. We are a detail. Is “detail” automatically realism? Is there automatic logic using film realism? Have we convinced them, or tricked them, giving them easy viewing, the answer with the question?
Photography’s original sin was illusion. A slight of hand to fool the eye, and get your interest- spelled “m o n e y.”
The need for detail varies, almost inversely with the skill of the maker. The more skilled you become, the less need for rendering details — telling everything. You will leave out details, not to avoid meaning, but to make meaning. Give space between the notes. Allow the actor to have say in their words. More is better, when it gets you further.
Accepting some reduction, isn’t a defect, it is understanding what matters, even how to give them more meaning. This won’t be clear to the engineer, nor the accountant, for whom every omission is an error, every elimination an oversight.
Art isn’t an exercise in project management
Daguerre was a diligent worker, but hardly an original. He used the camera to fool the crowd, pleasing them and his bank. His work had more talent for revelation than he did.
Legibility vs. Detail
The hand of a much better illusionist –Albrecht Dürer
What makes this image so effective?
What is your haptic belief, or need?
This could sell children’s clothing, furniture, even makeup. It, of course, wasn’t designed as an ad. It was meant by the artist to be complete, not edited. It presents itself completely,legibly, with only enough detail to achieve the goal of the artist. We know, because he stopped working on it, stamped it boldly with his strike.
Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966)
Details fall apart. We want to know, to understand more, so we ask film to answer all questions. The Zapruder film was a witness, but it was limited, flawed. Antonioni provides us details, but incomplete narrative.
It is the picture that counts, not the pixels.
The Arc
- it looked like it
- looked more like it
- looked better than it
The journey of detail is the staircasing of reality from transcribed to controlled, from understanding to adulation, to adoration. We travel into a fog; from realization to adoration.
The eye only collects. It is the brain that sees
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