{"id":2948,"date":"2013-06-09T03:57:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T07:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/06\/beauty-5\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T03:57:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T07:57:20","slug":"beauty-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/06\/beauty-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another excerpt from an interview with photographer Jeff Jacobsen in the April 13 issue of Photo District News (PDN):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>You defended beauty in photographs earlier&#0160; [in the interview].&#0160; Are you suggesting that contemporary photography tends to eschew beauty?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I think often it does.&#0160; Sometimes beauty has a negative connotation in the photography world, certainly in the photojournalism world, it often is.&#0160; And that complexity of form is given this high degree of value.&#0160; And sometimes [complex form] really is magnificent.&#0160; But sometimes a very simple form &#8211; some Andre Kertesz photographs are so formally beautiful but they&#39;re very simple. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When it&#39;s really, really working in photography, there is a creative relationship between form and content.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01910321c7e9970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2150\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01910321c7e9970c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01910321c7e9970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"2150\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#0160; [in the interview].&#0160; Are you suggesting that contemporary photography tends to eschew beauty? I think often it does.&#0160; Sometimes beauty has a negative connotation in the photography world, certainly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}