dimanche 9 septembre 2012

samedi 1 septembre 2012

lundi 13 août 2012

dimanche 12 août 2012

photography masters

Joe Rodriguez: the surprising experience (i.e. liberating) of learning from what he knows - what he has made himself, and his volume of work - rather than from what he teaches.
Retrospectively the same thing can be said for Natan Dvir, for Harvey Stein. Joe shows it to me.
Master.
This certainly takes me away from pedagogic tropes ('humanism', 'courage', 'emotion' are key, and they are weighted with something known with depth, quite unfacile).
It is, also, what the power of discovery in 2008 Arles was made of. There is knowledge here, and its forms are fresh to me. 

samedi 11 août 2012

day #5

What is a decision? An action? What is a desire?
What is the desire in this "photography"?


The many people I am in a few days, churning churning with the variety of the meetings and the close time of improvisation; of letting things happen.
The chiding I'm getting about expecting little.

So many so many things I'm learning with this week.

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Notes :
. "I am the master" (+ notion de "chess master")
. these men are teaching me. What exactly? How people.
Also : giving me. Moving.
. Bad teeth: notable in this country of perfect mouths and strong jaws.

vendredi 10 août 2012

day #5

La question avait pu être : où est l'image ici, qu'est-ce qu'il y a à voir, montrer? Comment y retrouver l'activité photographique, sa façon d'articuler ?
Les photos sans intérêt rencontrent encore cette question, sous cette forme.
Mais le grand plaisir de retrouver au près de la situation, quand je suis "dans la scène" (Susana), le sensuel intelligent de l'appareil ; la pratique de l'attention qu'il permet, l'écoute, l'émerveillement que ça-existe, que ça se fasse sous les yeux.

Je ne sais pas si je pourrai sortir ce soir. J'ai pourtant ce quasi-rendez-vous avec le master chess player fraîchement rasé, j'espère.