Comments on: Retreat from Camera Kingdom — Eikoh Hosoe’s Hana Dorobou

By: Dirk Vreugdenhil

Dirk Vreugdenhil — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:01:24 +0000

Here in The Netherlands (Europe) its the same. Its easyer and for advertisers more intresting to talk and write about camera’s instead of images/work. Maybe its because a lot of people want/need a camera and produce images and not very much peole need images.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:44:22 +0000

I hope you don’t think that this is different elsewhere. How many magazines or websites dedicated to the creative side of photography do you know, versus the technical and gear oriented? And this should not surprise anyone, for various and often-cited reasons. I don’t really agree though that this has necessarily to do whether your country makes cameras or not, there does not seem any correlation to me between the two.

By: steven:s

steven:s — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:10:33 +0000

I agree with his comments regarding the emphasis on photographic technique over creativity in Japan. A quick look at magazines such as Asahi Camera, Nippon Camera etc reveal their obsession with an images technical details rather than the end result. The impression is that the final image is incidental to the process. Like many things in Japan, the process seems to take priority over the actual result