“El acto fotográfico, un modo de certificar la experiencia, es también un modo de rechazarla: cuando se confina a la búsqueda de lo fotogénico, cuando se convierte la experiencia en una imagen, un recuerdo. El viaje se transforma en una estrategia para acumular fotos. La propia actividad fotográfica es tranquilizadora y mitiga esa desorientación general que se suele agudizar con los viajes. La mayoría de los turistas se sienten obligados a poner la cámara entre ellos y toda cosa destacable que les sale al paso. Al no saber cómo reaccionar, hacen una foto. Así la experiencia cobra forma: alto, una fotografía, adelante. El método seduce sobre todo a gente subyugada a una ética de trabajo implacable: alemanes, japoneses y estadounidenses. El empleo de una cámara atenúa su ansiedad provocada por la inactividad laboral cuando están en vacaciones y presuntamente divirtiéndose. Cuentan con una tarea que parece una simpática imitación del trabajo: pueden hacer fotos."(“Sobre la fotografía” -1977)
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2008
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The Defense of Places:
As a photographer, I can stand there alone. No need for a hundred people around you. No need for an assistant to shout "Silence." Mostly it IS silent. So I can just stand there and listen. I can almost use my camera like a sound recorder, capture the place's sounds sure, but most of all, capture it telling its story and its history.
My favorite Beatles lyrics goes:
There are places I remember all my life
Though some have changed ...
All these places had their moments ...
In my life I've loved them all.
(A good thing I didn't become a musician, after all.) I'm happy to be a photographer of places. Others take great photographs of people. One of them is Donata, my wife. She has an incredible gift to see people, at their best. For my part, I couldn't be happier with my subjects – PLACES;
Places where we spend our lives.
Places that we visit for just one moment.
Places we discover by chance.
Places that attract us by their name on a map alone.
Places we will never see again.
Places we can never forget.
Places we long to come back to.
Places that scare us.
Places that comfort us.
Places that make us feel at home.
Places we find repulsive.
Places that fill us with awe.
Places we dreamed about before we ever got there.
Places we got lost in,
and places that we lost ourselves.
Places condition us.
Places protect us.
Places destroy us.
As metaphorical as they might appear, places are always real. You can walk around in them or lie down on the ground. You can take a stone with you or a handful of sand. But you can't take the place with you.
You can never really own a place. Even the camera can't. And if we take its picture, we're only borrowing the place's appearance for a little while, nothing but its outer skin, its surface.
Some of the places I photographed are about to disappear, might already have vanished from the surface of the Earth. They will only survive in photographs, or better: The memory of them will have to cling to the pictures we have of them. Other places will outlive us and even our efforts to capture them on photographs. More so: They will survive any trace of us.
In a million years, when no one will be around any more to even remember us faintly, some of these places will. Places have memories. They remember everything. It's engraved in stone. It's deeper than the deepest waters. Their memories are like sand dunes, wandering on and on.
I guess that's why I take pictures of places: I don't want to take them for granted. I want to urge them not to forget us!
From the book "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth" by Wim Wenders.
The Image as Remembrance
Acceptance of the history of the people and the family of his birth, acknowledgment of the cultural tradition in which he was generated, all-embracing love for the vocation to freedom and creativity of man made in the image and likeness of God: these are the foundations of Tarkovsky's art. "In all my films," he wrote, "it has seemed to me important to make an effort to establish the bonds that connect persons... the bonds that united me in particular to mankind, if you will, and all of us with everything that surrounds us. It is indispensable to me to feel my condition as heir, and that I am not in this world by chance... It has always been very important for me to establish my belonging to a tradition, a culture, a circle of persons or ideas."
The vitality of this belonging, in him, comes from accepting, acknowledging, loving also the little images of his own genealogy, these humble traces of daily life seen through memory, viewed by remembering; and, as in the dream sequence that runs through Ivan's Childhood, awakening the little orphan to the sacrificial fulfillment of his destiny, so too does the film Mirror reflect the decisive scenes of the story by reconstructing literally on the set one of these black and white photographs as the foundation for the scene.
An instantaneous mirror of memory, every photograph leaves an immobile trace of what has been, a fixed imprint of something that is no longer what it was before, a silent simulacrum of someone who has disappeared forever from the horizon of our vision. And, as a simple act of remembering, the photograph seems to testify only the disappearance and death of persons and of the feelings that bind us to them, of things and of the places to which they belong.
Texto de Giovanni Chiaramonti sobre el libro "instant Light" de Andrei Tarkovsky
An artistic image
is one that ensures its own development,
its historical viability.
An image is a grain,
a self-evolving retroactive organism.
It is a symbol of actual life,
as opposed to life itself.
Life contains death.
An image of life, by contrast,
excludes it, or else sees in it
a unique potential
for the affirmation of life.
Texto de Andrei Tarkovsky extraido de su libro "Instant Light"
Me animo a decir que si en 1977 hubiera existido Facebook, Susan habría dicho algo sobre aquellos que al sacarse fotos piesan qué lindas van a quedar en el álbum virtual.
Verás que me leí todo!!!
A la espera de nuevos escritos...
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