Photography is "the art of not pushing the button"--弗兰克。霍瓦特。
近来处于休整期，多看了一些东西，感觉看大师的访谈，回忆录比看他们的作品对自己更有感触，因为从他们的对话中我可以直接的跟他们的思想接触，更直截了当一些，也就少走些弯路。
这是一位法国女记者采访Frank时的对话片段：
. Bensaïd（记者）
Like the continuity of considering photography as "the art of not pushing the button"? What exactly do you mean by that?
Frank :
One difference between photography and painting (or drawing, or other forms of art) is that it takes no talent, and practically no effort, to get an image on film. A modern camera - as the one we are using right now - takes care even of focusing and exposure.All my efforts are spent in holding back. The reason for holding back is not only to spare some film - it's like storing my energy, or rather my expectation; it's letting the image I want take shape in my mind, by the very act of refusing the images I don't want. Until the moment when I recognize, in the viewfinder, the image that I want to see - and then there is no holding back any more.
还是个瞬间的概念；我觉得不是你在扑捉瞬间，而是瞬间在那一霎那感染了你，扑捉了你，那么这一瞬间就不是定格，而是释放；拍风光是你在等那令你激动不已的时刻/拍人文时你所要扑捉的也是那种决定性时刻，但它们都一个相同点（这里我是指你的作品），那就是在按下快门前，你心里就大致有一个感觉，觉得这就是你想要的，也正是这个感觉促使你去按下快门。这就是我所理解的：Photography is "the art of not pushing the button"
谈到布勒松时,他说自己刚开始时是布勒松的believer,但后来就成了一个heretic,原因?(其实某种意义上heretic才是最伟大的believer
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他说:
He(布勒松) prescribed certain rules: never employ artificial light (like flash); never use extreme lenses (like wide-angles or tele-lenses); never reframe; never interact with the situation you photograph. But I don't believe that the greatness of his photography comes from following these rules - in fact I know it doesn't, because none of the photographers who followed them has done anything comparable to his work.
这让我想起了几个月前看的另一段关于布勒松的访谈,被采访者是David Alan,另一位玛格南的杰出摄影师,在这个问题上看来David与Frank是持不同意见的,我觉得Frank的观点我比较支持,因为David自身就以善于与被拍摄对象沟通闻名,用他自己的话,他为了拍一个普通的酒吧招待,可以花一下午在那个酒吧里喝酒聊天,然后很不经意的摸出自己的m6(他称之为二次大战时的老货),在征得对方许可后,才开始拍摄.
上面是自己做的一些笔记,算是观后感吧.其实人类的很多发明是对自己肢体或原体的延伸:第一位用木棍击赶野兽的山顶洞人,是把木棍看成自己手臂的延伸/车轮是自己双腿的延伸,尽管车轮的形状千奇百态/写作是自己记忆和声音的延伸/相机则是自己眼睛的延伸...而ps更像是巧克力蛋糕上的草莓..
, 我是说这一切都需要作者极大的想象力.
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