If it is unintentional, is it art or just accident? Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > -- 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.
