At least one commercial photographer feels strongly that the camera in the iPhone (any iPhone) is enough to bring out the artist in Everyman, or at least every man (and woman) with an iPhone.

One visionary professional photographer believes that the iPhone contains enough camera to bring out the artist in all of us. Chase Jarvis, a self-described iPhone freak has not only owned every iPhone since the first, but he has been taking photographs since day one. Further, Jarvis believes that everyone has a bit of the artist in them, and that the iPhone is enough of an artistic tool to prove that in realistic terms, according to an LA Times blog.

To this end, Jarvis has produced a book, titled “The Best Camera Is the One That’s With You” which contains 256 pages of his iPhone photographs and his every-man-is-an-artist philosophy. Even better, he has morphed  his beliefs into an iPhone app called “Best Camera” plus an associated social network site. Jarvis is absolutely putting his actions where his artistic photography is, to warp a ancient truism.

Here is Jarvis on the iPhone, photography, and art:

Yeah, everybody is an artist.

My [65-year-old] mom is a great example. She was never programmed that she is a creative type,” he said. But when she got an iPhone, “it enabled something in her…. There’s no drama in this thing that you’re supposed to talk to your friends on.

This is a legitimate tool. This is a book-worthy topic.

There’s virtue in making the perfect picture. But there’s also merit in pulling something out of your pocket … this gets you taking pictures…and gives [us all] permission to suck.

Jarvis’s iPhone app is a conglomeration of tools that he found that he needed to take interesting photographs with the iPhone and to share them. To this end, he has included a shooting trigger, filters, and tools to share photos via email and a number of social networking sites, as well as his own photo-sharing site, which shows only photos taken with the iPhone. Jarvis is currently working on the next version of the app, which he says will feature better sharing tools and an increased opportunity for dialog among the poster of iPhone photos. Looking at the photos on the site go along way to proving that it is not the tool that is important; it is the human using the tool.

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Entry was posted on Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 5:48 pm under Commercial Software, iPhone.  Print This Post

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