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From a photographer's point of view.
I was just reading an article by David Vestal - a well known and respected photographer, teacher and writer - in a magazine called "Photo Techniques". Here is a little morsel of wisdom I believe applies to many aspects of life in general, specially the last paragraph. I certainly hear echoes of it in interpreting the Yi. I was about to post this in the "Question for the day" thread, since I believe it applies to part of the conversation's subject, but I think it deserves its little place.
He's talking about "paying attention" and B/W photography:
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The picture's purpose is largely to move people emotionally when they see those flat, static, rectangular areas of tones without color -- partly through visual information about the world, partly through form. Perhaps no one understands how form works. I don't know. But when the form, as well as the indentifiable content, works, we feel it and know it.
The form is the shape of the content, and the content is only seen through the form. Any separation between them is strictly theoretical. They are aspects of the same thing. When either fails, the picture fails.<!-/Quote-!><HR SIZE=0></BLOCKQUOTE>
I thought it was worth sharing.
Luis
I was just reading an article by David Vestal - a well known and respected photographer, teacher and writer - in a magazine called "Photo Techniques". Here is a little morsel of wisdom I believe applies to many aspects of life in general, specially the last paragraph. I certainly hear echoes of it in interpreting the Yi. I was about to post this in the "Question for the day" thread, since I believe it applies to part of the conversation's subject, but I think it deserves its little place.
He's talking about "paying attention" and B/W photography:
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR SIZE=0><!-Quote-!><FONT SIZE=1>Quote:</FONT>
The picture's purpose is largely to move people emotionally when they see those flat, static, rectangular areas of tones without color -- partly through visual information about the world, partly through form. Perhaps no one understands how form works. I don't know. But when the form, as well as the indentifiable content, works, we feel it and know it.
The form is the shape of the content, and the content is only seen through the form. Any separation between them is strictly theoretical. They are aspects of the same thing. When either fails, the picture fails.<!-/Quote-!><HR SIZE=0></BLOCKQUOTE>
I thought it was worth sharing.
Luis