Love the guy. I tend to agree with much of what he says, or at least understand where he's coming from.
He always considered himself a surrealist who happened to use a camera to realize his vision (I hesitate to use the term "art"). Towards the end of his life he stopped shooting altogether (except "snapshots" for personal purposes). He drew, sketched, painted. The camera was no longer any use to him. Hey, I can see why he says what he does about photography schools and photojournalism. Geez, he invented himself as he went along. He was pure spontaneity with a camera. You can't teach that. And even if you could it wasn't there to teach when he was shooting. He might have felt differently were he a landscape or nature photographer, but he never could be those, could he? He always had a knack for being where the action was, but not to capture it as newsworthy event. That was secondary. The event, like the camera, was a means of expressing his surrealism. I probably am not expressing myself well (probably?) but I totally get him. And I mostly agree although I recognize that much of what he says applies only to him and not the general public or other photographers. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> Sent: June 22, 2013 6/22/13 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: TYTimes blog: A lost interview with HCB Paul Stenquist wrote: >HCB is someone whose work I admire greatly but whose opinions about >photography, art and life for that matter I often find strange and >lacking in substance. My sentiments exactly. I absolutely love much of his work. Hearing/reading him talk about it always sours me on him. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
