Chris Steele-Perkins The Teds. Great Britain. 1976.
“Capa’s advice to ‘get closer’ can apply to both physical and psychological proximity.
In this case I was physically close, but the Leica M 35mm lens I was using di
(...) d not focus at such a close distance, and the foreground is thus quite out of focus. I was not psychologically close; I had never met these young men before, and I think I only took two photographs of them in total.
However, if you spend some time with this image, looking closely, it draws you in, which is a strange sensation, even for me still, and suggests that closeness applies to the viewer as well. Most people in the Instagram world spend very little time looking at a lot of images, maybe liking them, maybe not. But, getting close to pictures, spending real time with them, makes the good ones that much more interesting.”
— Chris Steele-Perkins © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
