| Topic: | Cartier-Bresson Phenomenology / Street Photography / An Aesthetic Way. |
| Posted by: | Stephen Bray |
| Date/Time: | 13/06/2003 07:18:45 |
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JS, Thanks for the flowers! I think the study is flawed but impeccably aided my self development at the time. Cartier-Bresson's criptic comment to me about telescopes, microscopes and knives and forks artfully highlighted the importance of presence in life and mind. The most significant features of the study were when I realised that H C-B performs photography and life as a dance, (rather like the family therapist Salvador Minuchin)., and importantly when I realised that I had made an error in coding HC-B's meta programs: "As I write this I find already I have begun to be affected by the analysis of these meta programs with the result that I feel a slight pressure at the area of my chest at the central point adjacent to my heart. The effect is to make me sway slightly and to feel off balance, although in fact I am seated securely on a chair. The reason for my imbalance, is I know, because in the act of thinking about and writing the meta program analysis I have unconsciously accessed some of Cartier-Bresson’s programs. I know however that there is a contradiction within the meta program table I have written which now needs addressing." Now some years later as I write I wonder how this above quotation might relate to the 'Know Nothing State' to which Carmen and John refer in the article 'The Sins of the Fathers'? Surely if information is news of difference, then the visceral feelings that I experienced were just this. But following this news I now had knowledge available in conscious awareness, rather than simply as 'no knowledge skills'. I wonder if I might have obtained a different result, and one that would have even better informed my life and photographic skill had my initial aim been better formed i.e: to model H C-B's photographic skill, rather than seek to understand it? Stephen A Tribute to Henri Cartier-Bresson Page 12. |