Since my project is floating between photography and moving image
my readings and research are also in between the two
At the moment I read "the mind's eye" a book by Henri Cartier Bresson.
One of the things that I found there is:
'To take photographs means to recognize-simultaneously...-both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning.'
so as he says and I agree : the fact doesn't carry the meaning but the meaning is revealed through the arrangement of the forms
In explaining what he tried to do with photography he said: '...to preserve life in the act of living'
He also says:
'We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory'
I agree that photography and video can capture things while they vanish. But I also believe that you can create the same meaning with different facts, So it is not the fact that is the subject the subject is always the creator.
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