Photography II Thomas Hamburger

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Thomas Hamburger

Photography is psychology.

Why? Because understanding unde the visual image is understanding the realm in which the psyche of the photographer and viewer intersect. Psychological principles about perception, emotion, creativity, personal identity, interpersonal communication, and human relationships help explain how we create visual images, how we share them, and how people react to what they see. Psychology can also help clarify the personality and social factors that shape the vocation and avocation of photography.

“The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.�

- Gabrielle Bernstein

“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.�

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see” - Mountain Rants

bstract

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.� - Ani DiFranco

“I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.” - Eric Cantona

similarities.

not in

“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.� - Lucian Freud

Feelings through texture

“Every person has different sides to them, that’s what makes us human.”

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.” ― Megan Hart

“It was a pink sort of smell- a smell that seemed to get bigger as you smelled it and then burst, just like the popping of a bubble�

- Alexander McCall Smith

“Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.�

- Steve Young

thamburger@cng.edu