Real diary (683)
Being happy.
Lucas Dewaele, dagboek
Over fotografie en leven.
Month: September, 2018
September 29, 2018
Real diary (682)
Roeselare, Stationsplein.
September 28, 2018
Real diary (681)
Meeting spaces
September 27, 2018
Real diary (680)
Also yesterday’s news/recording
September 26, 2018
Real diary (679tris)
“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”
Eve Arnold
September 26, 2018
Real diary (679bis)
“If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.”
Garry Winogrand
September 26, 2018
Real diary (679)
“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.”
Sam Abell
September 26, 2018
Real diary (678)
‘We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.’
Anais Nin
September 25, 2018
Real diary (677)
My students were lucky, again.
September 24, 2018
Real diary (676)
‘Une photographie n’est ni prise ni saisie de force. Elle s’offre à vous. C’est la photo qui vous saisit.’
HCB
September 22, 2018
Real diary (675)
‘The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.’
Orson Welles
September 22, 2018
Real diary (674)
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
Ralph Hattersley
September 21, 2018
Real diary (673)
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
Ernst Haas
September 21, 2018
(Not so) Real diary (672)
Teaching.
‘The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.’
(To all of my former colleagues – but i’m afraid they don’t read anything)
September 18, 2018
Real diary (671)
My students made better pictures while I was explaining.
September 16, 2018
Real diary (670)
Homeward bound.
September 16, 2018
Real diary (669)
Shields of self-interest.
September 16, 2018
Real diary (668)
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.
Susan Sontag
September 15, 2018
Real diary (667)
Not just people.
(P.s. I skipped the former number. My friends know why.)
September 13, 2018
Real diary (665)
Artists.
September 12, 2018
Real diary (664)
Artists.
September 11, 2018
Real diary (663)
Artists.
September 8, 2018
Real diary (663)
Artists at work.
September 7, 2018
Real diary (662)
Artists.
September 6, 2018
Real diary (661)
The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say, ‘There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks that way.
‘Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy… The very muteness of what is, hypothetically, comprehensible in photographs is what constitutes their attraction and provocativeness.
Susan Sontag
“La suprema saggezza dell’immagine fotografica consiste nel dire: “Questa è la superficie. Pensa adesso – o meglio intuisci – che cosa c’è di là da essa, che cosa deve essere la realtà se questo è il suo aspetto”. Le fotografie, che in quanto tali non possono spiegare niente, sono inviti inesauribili alla deduzione, alla speculazione e alla fantasia.”
