Getting Closer: The Art of Proxemics in Photography
<p>Unless you’ve been living under a proverbial rock in the photography world, you’ve likely heard the quote attributed to Robert Capa: “<a href="https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/robert-capa?all%2Fall%2Fall%2Fall%2F0=" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.</a>” Well, as it so happens, there’s some science behind the photojournalist great’s piece of advice.</p>
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<p>So, you’ve clicked on this episode of Photo Forward and you’re wondering — what in the hell is “Proxemics” and what could that possibly do for growing my photography career? Let’s dive in and learn a little something about the science of personal space in photographer.</p>
<p>Coined way back in 1963, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_T._Hall" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">anthropologist Edward T Hall</a> describe the phenomenon of Proxemics as “<a href="https://amzn.to/2TBE1kL" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The interrelated observation and theories of humans use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture.</a>” That’s a bit of word soup, so let’s break down the whole system.</p>
<p>Essentially, when you’re interacting with other folks in your normal day-to-day existence, there’s four “ranges” of space between any two people (from farthest to nearest): Public distance (12 to 25 ft), Social distance (4 to 12 ft), Personal distance (1.51 to 4 ft) and (<em>bow chicka bow wow</em>) Intimate distance (1 in to 18 in.)</p>
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