tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post1582741878318804435..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Notes on Henri Cartier-Bressonamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-90330183033117675102021-10-20T03:53:42.037-07:002021-10-20T03:53:42.037-07:00the following may be (sort of) apropos:
"Th...the following may be (sort of) apropos: <br /><br />"The furtive fallacy is the erroneous idea that facts of special significance are dark and dirty things and that history itself is a story of causes mostly insidious and results mostly invidious. It begins with the premise that reality is a sordid, secret thing; and that history happens on the back stairs a little after midnight, or else in a smoke-filled form, or a perfumed boudoir, or an executive penthouse or somewhere in the inner sanctum of the Vatican, or the Kremlin, or the Reich Chancellery, or the Pentagon. It is something more, and something other than a conspiracy theory"David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/manifesto-idiom.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-47946073458042231602021-10-19T08:35:24.152-07:002021-10-19T08:35:24.152-07:00I always want people to interview photographers an...I always want people to interview photographers and artists about pretty much anything other than their photography/art.<br /><br />If I had an hour to interview Sally Mann it would be 100% horses and dogs. You can just go look at the photos, for god's sake, but Mann herself is an actual 3D human with more going on.amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-84413283314491829942021-10-19T08:34:12.984-07:002021-10-19T08:34:12.984-07:00Bair went on to write a book about Magnum, presuma...Bair went on to write a book about Magnum, presumably tearing away the same veil and revealing Magnum Photographers to be also ordinary people rather than beings composed of pure light.<br /><br />I mean, I guess there is some sort of point to be made? But there are lots of professions that habitually promote their members as heroes, as special, in usually kind of vague terms, and I suppose it's harmless to point out that firefighters generally work a well-defined process and obey chains of command, and rarely charge in to burning buildings to rescue small children in defiance of the Captain's direct orders.amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-53182983327314327232021-10-19T06:13:21.438-07:002021-10-19T06:13:21.438-07:00Yeah, exactly. The work speaks for itself. If you ...Yeah, exactly. The work speaks for itself. If you want to buy into the whole promotional overkill thing, knock yourself out.David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/manifesto-idiom.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-56857023425386845072021-10-19T03:35:30.284-07:002021-10-19T03:35:30.284-07:00Interesting why an academic exhaustively researche...Interesting why an academic exhaustively researched and documented how <em>this</em> photographer did not, in fact, fall out of the sky, but worked under the same constraints as every other photographer, ever. Go big or go home I guess?David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photo/manifesto-idiom.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-32545671103978869592021-10-18T22:29:42.318-07:002021-10-18T22:29:42.318-07:00When HCB died I was incensed that the tributes on ...When HCB died I was incensed that the tributes on TV news shows were showing his pictures Ken Burns-style, close-up scanning over details. A friend sent me a VHS (google it if you youngsters need to) tape of Charlie Rose interviewing HCB: possibly the worst interview ever recorded, even by Rose's standards. Rose apparently had been assured that the great man is brilliant and just repeats that in many ways, while HCB indeed has no teachable technique or comment to make about it at all. It made me feel, "Jeez, just let the old guy do his work."<br />Matt Kalliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00051484131679998977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-82492319466569044332021-10-18T09:22:19.458-07:002021-10-18T09:22:19.458-07:00It would have saved a lot of huffing and puffing i...It would have saved a lot of huffing and puffing if someone had given more thought to translating HCB's original French title, "Images à la sauvette", which sounds a lot more sneaky. To do something "à la sauvette" is to do it on the sly, in haste, e.g. "vente à la sauvette" is illegal street peddling.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.com