{"id":26188,"date":"2023-09-14T01:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=26188"},"modified":"2025-05-21T20:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:27:05","slug":"26188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=26188","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c-1986-Eugene.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c-1986-Eugene.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"386\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c-1986-Eugene.png 560w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c-1986-Eugene-330x227.png 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c-1986-Eugene-150x103.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EUGENE RICHARDS &#8211; PHOTOGRAPHER OF TRUTH AND REALITY VS. LIES AND APPEARANCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for the evolution of (my) photography, I&#8217;m probably wrong in saying that this evolution is a reflection of our times. Where the truth of things is less valuable than the appearance of things. Where wealth is aspirational, and people without wealth less and less important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to think that the quality of work is paramount. But it has become clear, that as in contemporary politics, being seen is perhaps more important than what you&#8217;re saying. I still like to believe though that it&#8217;s the work that counts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Eugene Richards<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Image by Eugene Richards, from his new book, <em>In This Brief Life<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blind-magazine.com\/news\/eugene-richards-in-this-brief-life\/\"><em>Read more here<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EUGENE RICHARDS &#8211; PHOTOGRAPHER OF TRUTH AND REALITY VS. LIES AND APPEARANCES &#8220;As for the evolution of (my) photography, I&#8217;m probably wrong in saying that this evolution is a reflection of our times. Where the truth of things is less valuable than the appearance of things. Where wealth is aspirational, and people without wealth less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=26188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26188"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28942,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions\/28942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}