David Hume Kennerly On The iPhone - Book Review

David Hume Kennerly On The iPhone;
Secrets and Tips from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer
Goff Books www.goffbooks.com
ISBN 978-1-939621-13-9

What do you get when an award winning, seasoned, photojournalist encounters a year with no planned big news events to cover; no presidential elections, the economy apparently on the rise, Washington politicians at a standstill? You get David Hume Kennerly picking up his iPhone and striving to make meaningful images with it every day for a year.
In his forward Kennerly notes that despite the rise of mobile phone photography now creating more pictures in a year than in all of history, “this new technology hasn’t turned out a new crop of world-class photographers.” He continues, “Instead, it has allowed people to take sharper and better exposed pictures that generally lack meaningful or well-composed content.” He then rather ominously notes, “The power of pictures is being diluted by a tidal wave of visual mediocrity that is out there for all ...