{"id":1198,"date":"2018-01-31T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2018-08-05T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:46:47","slug":"project-3-what-matters-is-to-look-research-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/course-work\/part-3-traces-of-time\/project-3-what-matters-is-to-look\/project-3-what-matters-is-to-look-research-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 3 ‘What matters is to look’ – research point"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Matters is to look<\/h1>\n
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1932<\/p><\/div>\n

This image by Henri Carier-Bresson is described as ‘one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century’. Personally I’ve never seen it before.<\/p>\n

As part of my research into Henri Cartier-Bresson, I watched \u2018L\u2019amour tout court\u2019 on Vimeo at https:\/\/vimeo.com\/106009378<\/a> (accessed 10\/01\/2018).<\/p>\n

The film is an interview with HC-B made by Raphael O\u2019Byrne entitled ‘Just Plain Love’<\/div>\n
It is in French but has English subtitles<\/div>\n
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HC-B starts by saying that most people don\u2019t look properly at their subject, they just press the shutter buttons<\/div>\n
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He intermates that his parents were strict and prudish, whilst he frequented bordellos <\/div>\n
Left-wing catholics<\/div>\n
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HCB went to Africa<\/div>\n
He is a bit of crusader for people less fortunate than himself.<\/div>\n
He been in jail and then to the commandos, he feels like an escaped prisoner<\/div>\n
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HCB and Klavdij Sluban hold a regular photography workshop with the inmates in the Fleury-Mergois.  Sluban is now also going to a prison in Georgia.  At first the inmates seem very cautious and suspicious, but are soon running around taking photos, mostly of themselves.  He says that the inmates either refer to themselves as before incarceration or after, but not during.  By giving them a camera, we see their view of the prison, rather than the photographers.<\/div>\n
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HCB reviewing his famous leaping man image, said it was just luck, but that you need to leave yourself open, you can\u2019t just want it to happen, because it won\u2019t<\/div>\n
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He has framed his images, using geometry, divine proportion. Which he instinctively knows where it is.  It\u2019s about capturing the physical rhythm of a situation.<\/div>\n
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Form should come first, light is the icing on the cake. Interview with writing, says that HCB was always looking, will see things others don\u2019t see.  He sees the form or geometry of an image and the people within it provide the interest.<\/div>\n
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HCB you either have it you don\u2019t.<\/div>\n
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Arkivah – people need to love to look, you can\u2019t look at something you don\u2019t love<\/div>\n
Art is not a visual think, is a sensual think, if you don\u2019t taste it you won\u2019t see it.<\/div>\n

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just plain love a film by Raphael O’Bryan<\/p>\n

the gaze should pierce <\/p>\n

wanting won’t work<\/p>\n

physidcal rhythm<\/p>\n

light is like purfune to me.<\/p>\n

giocometti?<\/p>\n

to look means to love – painter<\/p>\n

suite nl3 en re mineur sarabande, bach<\/p>\n

suite no3 en ut majeur, parelude, bach<\/p>\n

suite no 1 en sol majeur, courante, bach<\/p>\n

suite no 9 courante, haendel eric heidsieck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Matters is to look This image by Henri Carier-Bresson is described as ‘one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century’. Personally I’ve never seen it before. As part of my research into Henri Cartier-Bresson, I watched \u2018L\u2019amour … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,32,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-3-the-decisive-moment","category-photographers-artists","category-project-3-what-matters-is-to-look","category-research-and-reflection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tN7f-jk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1750,"url":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/uncategorized\/5-3-behind-the-gare-saint-lazare-place-holder\/","url_meta":{"origin":1198,"position":0},"title":"5.3 – Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (place holder)","author":"Debra Flynn","date":"1st July 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Exercise 5.3 Look again at Henri Cartier-Bresson\u2019s photograph Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare in Part Three. 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