She was aware of a connection between the two art forms and found that lessons she learned with a camera could also be useful to her in her writing. In her autobiography, One Writer’s Beginnings, Welty discusses the conscious act of getting her distance. She says that it is “a prerequisite of [her] understanding of human events,” and it is “the way [she] begin[s] work” (Welty 21). She compares getting her distance before writing, to the distance in photography which is needed to determine the various elements such as frame, proportion, perspective, or light and
She was aware of a connection between the two art forms and found that lessons she learned with a camera could also be useful to her in her writing. In her autobiography, One Writer’s Beginnings, Welty discusses the conscious act of getting her distance. She says that it is “a prerequisite of [her] understanding of human events,” and it is “the way [she] begin[s] work” (Welty 21). She compares getting her distance before writing, to the distance in photography which is needed to determine the various elements such as frame, proportion, perspective, or light and