Keep it Simple – A Guide to Minimalist Photography

Re:Keep it Simple – A Guide to Minimalist Photography by scdna on Thursday July 10, 2014 @03:56PM (#8016858)

Could not agree more! Even if this is not easy to achieve you always need to repeat that KISS motto in your head while looking through the viewfinder. I believe so much in this principle that this great quote from Charles Mingus is the first sentence of my artist statement [1]: "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity". And the photographer author of that article nailed it when she wrote: "Minimalist photography attempts to explore how much information can be taken away from a composition, before it loses its impact".

[1] http://www.jeffmerlet.com/resume

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Re:Keep it Simple – A Guide to Minimalist Photography by exgrv on Thursday July 10, 2014 @04:27PM (#8017048)

I also like this quote from Antoine de Saint Exupéry: "Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher", which can be translated as: "Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away".

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Re:Keep it Simple – A Guide to Minimalist Photography by phkahler on Thursday July 10, 2014 @04:52PM (#8017225)

I feel that way about code too. I love getting rid of stuff that's overly complex or unnecessary without compromising useful functionality.

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