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May 23, 2008
an instantaneous photo
I aimed at capturing the magic of appearances in pictures, yet I did not always succeed in portraying things so that their underlying meaning revealed itself. It turned out that the pictures I took spontaneously, and with a blisslike sensation, as if they had long inhabited my unconscious, were often more powerful than those I had painstakingly composed – so that I grasped their magic as it were in passing.
An instantaneous photo that picks a moment out of a process is only aesthetically satisfying when it symbolizes the entire process.
Herbert List
Posted by amin at May 23, 2008 1:05 AM