Fotograafiast ja filosoofiast

Mõned kopi-pastad Eric Kimi pikast blogipostist Henri Cartier-Bressoni kohta. Õigemini,   mõtteid elust ja fotokunstist, mis on sõnastatud Eric Kimi poolt pärast HCB raamatu lugemist ja mis ka minus vastukaja tekitavad. ( Paksendused suuremalt jaolt  minu poolt.)  Otseselt fotografeerimist puudutavate mõtete ja juhistega siinkohal ei tegele.

Sam Szafran defended Cartier-Bresson by saying that “he never stopped taking photographs, only now it isn’t with a camera but mentally”.
I think this is an interesting point– perhaps it wasn’t photography, which ultimately interested Cartier-Bresson, but it was just capturing emotions and life in general. Whether this was done with a camera, a pen, or a paintbrush– I think the tool mattered a lot less for Cartier-Bresson (than the ultimate meaning he was trying to gain from it).

Cartier-Bresson was quite clear why he shot photography: he wanted to give meaning to his world.
As photographers and human beings, we are constantly trying to construct meaning in our lives and in the world. And I think street photography is one of the most beautiful vehicles to better explore, interact, dissect, and understand the world through image making.
 
“We cannot develop and print a memory. The writer has time to reflect. He can accept and reject, accept again; and before committing his thought to paper he is able to tie the several relevant elements together. There is also a period when his brain ”forgets,“ and his subconscious works on classifying his thoughts. But for photographers, what has gone is gone forever.”
Cartier-Bresson believes that through living we discover ourselves and the world around us. And through this, the world influences and affects us (and similarly, we influence and affect the world around us as well). He thinks that is what we should try to communicate through our photography:

“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of one-self is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds– the one inside us and the one outside us. As the result of a constant reciprocal process, both these worlds come to form a single one. And it is this world that we must communicate.”

  Just nii see ju on! Mis ajab inimest pildistama, kirjutama, joonistama? Elule tähenduse andmise tung. Nii omaenda elule kui kogu maailmale. Miks muidu on olemas kunsti-, kirjutamis- jms teraapiad. Mitte ainult oma tunnete väljaelamiseks ja seeläbi hingerahu leidmiseks, vaid selle protsessi, loomise käigus saab veidi mõtestatud elu ja iseennast selle sees.
 Kõigi meeltega võtame elu kui tooraine vastu, laseme läbi oma tunnete, uskumiste ja mõtlemise veski ja saadud jahust  katsume vormida  tähenduse.
Muutes ja muutudes.