Close enough to see the truth?

Legendary photographer Robert Capa is often quoted as having said that „if your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough“. Yesterday, John Mcpherson published a thoughtful essay on duckrabbit about what „being close enough“ could mean if you’re a photographer. „I used to think that this referred to physical proximity, getting into someone’s face, right up there close. It took a long time and many hard knocks for me to realise I was completely wrong.“

Sure enough, a vivid debate about his thoughts started in the comments … – give it a read, it might make you think.