{"id":7033,"date":"2011-11-18T06:36:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T10:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2011-11-18T06:36:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T10:36:30","slug":"qa-sean-kernan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/7033\/qa-sean-kernan\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Questions With Photographer Sean Kernan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/strong>
\nSean Kernan<\/a> provides quick candid answers to 20\u00a0questions.
\nWhat’s the best thing about gear?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s poetic sense of capability and precision.
\nWhat’s the worst thing about gear?<\/strong>
\nIt can seduce you into thinking you can take good photographs if you have it.
\nHow do you know when an image doesn’t work?<\/strong>
\nWhen it merely describes a surfaec but is not in itself alive.
\nHow do you know when an image is good?<\/strong>
\nWhen it takes me into some new space or understanding, beyond photography.
\nHow do you know when an image is great?<\/strong>
\nWhen it smacks me and enlarges me at once, and then does it again when I see it 20 years later.
\nWhat’s the most useful photographic mantra?<\/strong>
\nShoot first, ask questions later.
\nDo you practice another art form? (If so, which?)<\/strong>
\nChinese calligraphy, video.
\nWhat benefits do you get from (this\/these) other art form\/s?<\/strong>
\nFrom calligraphy, a very acute sense of the role of space, of emptiness. From video, a sense of time that is quite like music.
\nRead the more of Sean’s answers here.<\/a>
\nRead answers to the same questions by other photographers here.<\/a>
\nLearn more about Sean Kernan here.<\/a>
\nRead my Photographers On Photography conversation with Sean here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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