>> 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 >> >> .... Do you have a source for the quote,... > > 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 >
It seems to me that he is saying to forget foolish obsession with technique, be it a search for sharpness or the use of soft-focus lenses. I assume that the alternative (correct) concern should be with the subject of the image. stan -- 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.
