Clive Scott

A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in Bioy Casares__ novel The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata (1989). The hero Nicolasito Almanza declares: __ am convinced that all of photography depends on the moment we press the release [_] I believe that you__e a photographer if you know exactly when to press the release._ In making this declaration he is responding to the opinion expressed by Mr Gruter, owner of a photographic laboratory: ___] sometimes I wonder if the true work of the photographer doesn__ begin in the dark room, amid the trays and the enlarger.