I have an undy­ing the­ory, and a year-old draft on this thought about “bare” photography.

The prob­lem is, I could never bring myself to hit the “Publish” but­ton; I feel wrong about writ­ing about min­i­mal­ism on pho­tog­ra­phy whose con­tent is longer than a caption-length.

This piece by Gordon Lewis reminds me of that draft, and instead of push­ing that pub­lish but­ton, I’m going to just link it this time, and this bit, in par­tic­u­lar, caught my attention:

It shouldn’t sur­prise you that this min­i­mal­ist mind­set extends to my choice of equip­ment as well: one cam­era, one lens. These days it’s gen­er­ally a 35mm f/2, which trans­lates to a 50mm-equivalent in APS-C for­mat. Sure it lim­its my options; that’s the point.

This quoted pas­sage, and this piece I’m work­ing on is some­thing that I’d like to see where this blog is head­ing next, empow­er­ment through the art of reduc­ing, the art of essen­cial­iz­ing. Welcome to the future, 2011.