Have you ever considered who or what influences you? I hadn’t really considered who influenced by photography until I watched a lecture given by John Szarkowski (the former director of photography at MoMA) on Eugene Atget (available on Amazon Prime!). Szarkowski started comparing putting photos by Atget and Evans side by side to demonstrate the influence Atget had on Evans’ work.
There was one pair that struck me – they seemed familiar to me, but I hadn’t seen either of them before. But then I realized I had taken a similar picture!
The first two pictures below are pictures that Szarkowsi had paired together. The third is one I took (obviously) when I first moved into my condo. I don’t recall what caused me take the picture at the time but I have a series of photographs of my bed that I took that day.
I’m definitely no Eugene Atget or Walker Evans, but it’s exciting to know that I’m apparently learning something from them.
P.S. I promise I make my bed on the mornings that cats aren’t in it.