> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Daniel J. Matyola > Sent: 08 August 2011 15:20 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List; [email protected] > Subject: OT: Cartier-Bresson quote > > Frank: > > I have copied and used elsewhere your quote from HCB about sharpness > several times, and I have seen the quote in other places. > > Recently, some one claimed it is an urban legend, and that HCB never > said that, or that at least there is no evidence of him having said > it. Do you have a source for the quote, so I can win and argument > (and a beer)? >
I'm no Frank, and that's an interesting question. I have never seen a source for that quote, but he has said things in that spirit. For example, in his essay in The Decisive Moment, which is reproduced in The Mind's Eye, he says "I am constantly amused by the notion that some people have about photographic technique - a notion which reveals itself in an unsatiable craving for sharpness of images. Is this the passion of an obsession? Or do these people hope, by this trompe l'oeuil technique, to get to closer grips with reality? In either case, they are just as far away from the real problem as those of that other generation which used to endow all its photographic anecdotes with an intentional unsharpness such as was deemed to be 'artistic'." What he seems to be saying here is that your pictures must not be sharp, but unintentionally unsharp. Hmm. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
