Tree, Man and Goal Post, London
Excerpt It's from Not About the F Stop:
Sometimes there are pictures you take that you just can’t talk about. You look and—bang—that’s it. Thinking is not an integral part of the process. Intuition takes over. I’ve never had the ability to intellectualize about this kind of image. However, I can easily slip into escape mode and tell you what others have said about it.
Phil Perkis, in Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled , said: “And how the photographer got there is indescribable and mysterious. It stops dead in their tracks, those who would explain the whole business for us and make logical and predictable the content of photographs.” Ernst Haas said that we don’t take pictures, we are taken by pictures.
I was trying to explain this kind of image when I wrote: “I was walking along, minding my business….” Suddenly, I realized I was quoting the wonderful Nat King Cole song, and it explained how I felt about the whole question:
“I was walking along, minding my business
When out of an orange-colored sky
Flash! Bam! Ala-ka-zam!
Wonderful you came by”
That’s about it. If you are fortunate enough to be open to what’s in your field of vision, something wonderful happens. The most memorable and touching photographs are inexplicable both in their motivation and execution.
They are not about the photographer’s conscious desire to go out and shoot this or that. It’s the other way around. The photographer is waylaid (or “taken”) by this amazing juxtaposition of form and content in front of them that leaves them with no choice but to shoot. There is no, “That would make a nice photo.” There is no, “I ought to take a photo of that.” There is no intellectual analysis. The event cries out to be recorded. You respond, and your response is visceral and instinctive and intuitive.
The photograph is not the result of the clicking of the camera, but of all the years of your life up to the moment you take the picture.
Therefore, on the following pages are a series of images that I hope will be beautiful, touching, and provocative for you.
I leave you with the following thought: If the picture speaks for itself, let it.
As for the unanswered questions, one of the things that I’ve always loved about Henri Cartier Bresson’s work, and the thing that separates some photos from others, is that some photos don’t tell you things, but rather, ask questions or stimulate thought.
Could mere answers ever be more rewarding than that?
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Excerpt It's from Not About the F Stop:
Sometimes there are pictures you take that you just can’t talk about. You look and—bang—that’s it. Thinking is not an integral part of the process. Intuition takes over. I’ve never had the ability to intellectualize about this kind of image. However, I can easily slip into escape mode and tell you what others have said about it.
Phil Perkis, in Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled , said: “And how the photographer got there is indescribable and mysterious. It stops dead in their tracks, those who would explain the whole business for us and make logical and predictable the content of photographs.” Ernst Haas said that we don’t take pictures, we are taken by pictures.
I was trying to explain this kind of image when I wrote: “I was walking along, minding my business….” Suddenly, I realized I was quoting the wonderful Nat King Cole song, and it explained how I felt about the whole question:
“I was walking along, minding my business
When out of an orange-colored sky
Flash! Bam! Ala-ka-zam!
Wonderful you came by”
That’s about it. If you are fortunate enough to be open to what’s in your field of vision, something wonderful happens. The most memorable and touching photographs are inexplicable both in their motivation and execution.
They are not about the photographer’s conscious desire to go out and shoot this or that. It’s the other way around. The photographer is waylaid (or “taken”) by this amazing juxtaposition of form and content in front of them that leaves them with no choice but to shoot. There is no, “That would make a nice photo.” There is no, “I ought to take a photo of that.” There is no intellectual analysis. The event cries out to be recorded. You respond, and your response is visceral and instinctive and intuitive.
The photograph is not the result of the clicking of the camera, but of all the years of your life up to the moment you take the picture.
Therefore, on the following pages are a series of images that I hope will be beautiful, touching, and provocative for you.
I leave you with the following thought: If the picture speaks for itself, let it.
As for the unanswered questions, one of the things that I’ve always loved about Henri Cartier Bresson’s work, and the thing that separates some photos from others, is that some photos don’t tell you things, but rather, ask questions or stimulate thought.
Could mere answers ever be more rewarding than that?
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Excerpt It's from Not About the F Stop:
Sometimes there are pictures you take that you just can’t talk about. You look and—bang—that’s it. Thinking is not an integral part of the process. Intuition takes over. I’ve never had the ability to intellectualize about this kind of image. However, I can easily slip into escape mode and tell you what others have said about it.
Phil Perkis, in Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled , said: “And how the photographer got there is indescribable and mysterious. It stops dead in their tracks, those who would explain the whole business for us and make logical and predictable the content of photographs.” Ernst Haas said that we don’t take pictures, we are taken by pictures.
I was trying to explain this kind of image when I wrote: “I was walking along, minding my business….” Suddenly, I realized I was quoting the wonderful Nat King Cole song, and it explained how I felt about the whole question:
“I was walking along, minding my business
When out of an orange-colored sky
Flash! Bam! Ala-ka-zam!
Wonderful you came by”
That’s about it. If you are fortunate enough to be open to what’s in your field of vision, something wonderful happens. The most memorable and touching photographs are inexplicable both in their motivation and execution.
They are not about the photographer’s conscious desire to go out and shoot this or that. It’s the other way around. The photographer is waylaid (or “taken”) by this amazing juxtaposition of form and content in front of them that leaves them with no choice but to shoot. There is no, “That would make a nice photo.” There is no, “I ought to take a photo of that.” There is no intellectual analysis. The event cries out to be recorded. You respond, and your response is visceral and instinctive and intuitive.
The photograph is not the result of the clicking of the camera, but of all the years of your life up to the moment you take the picture.
Therefore, on the following pages are a series of images that I hope will be beautiful, touching, and provocative for you.
I leave you with the following thought: If the picture speaks for itself, let it.
As for the unanswered questions, one of the things that I’ve always loved about Henri Cartier Bresson’s work, and the thing that separates some photos from others, is that some photos don’t tell you things, but rather, ask questions or stimulate thought.
Could mere answers ever be more rewarding than that?