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Last month during a panel discussion at Aperture Foundation in New York, Charles Traub, a very talented photographer and influential photography critic whose day job is chairman of School of Visual Arts's photography MFA program, proposed some advices for young photographers, listed into "Dos" and "Don'ts":

Do something old in a new way.

Do something new in an old way.

Do something new in a new way. Whatever works, works.

Do it sharp—if you can’t, call it art.

Do fifty of them—you definitely will get a show.

Do it big—if you can’t do it big, do it red.

If you don’t know what to do, look up, or down—but continue looking.

Do celebrities—if you do a lot of them you’ll get a book.

Edit it yourself.

Design it yourself.

Publish it yourself.

Read Darwin, Marx, Freud, Einstein, Benjamin, McLuhan, and Barthes.

Construct your images from the edges inward.

If it’s the “real world,” do it in color.

If it can be done digitally, do it.

Be self-centered, self-involved, and generally entitled and always pushing—and damned to hell for doing it.

Don’t do it about yourself, your friend, or your family.

Don’t dare photograph yourself nude.

Don’t look at old family albums.

Don’t hand color it.

Don’t write on it.

Don’t use alternative processes—if it ain’t straight, do it in the computer.

Don’t gild the lily—a.k.a, less is more.

Don’t photograph indigent people—especially in foreign lands.

Don’t whine, Just produce.

1947年4月17日，马格南图片社在纽约Museum of Modern Art二楼的餐厅内成立，最初创始人包括Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger以及David Seymour (Chim)，摄影史上一段传奇由此开始。

Rober Capa in Paris, 1952

Henri Cartier-Bresson

George Rodger, in uniform during the liberation of Nazi Germany, 1945

David Seymour, 1956

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