Another excerpt from an interview with photographer Jeff Jacobsen in the April 13 issue of Photo District News (PDN):
You defended beauty in photographs earlier [in the interview]. Are you suggesting that contemporary photography tends to eschew beauty?
I think often it does. Sometimes beauty has a negative connotation in the photography world, certainly in the photojournalism world, it often is. And that complexity of form is given this high degree of value. And sometimes [complex form] really is magnificent. But sometimes a very simple form – some Andre Kertesz photographs are so formally beautiful but they're very simple.
When it's really, really working in photography, there is a creative relationship between form and content.
