| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cartier-Bresson Phenomenology / Street Photography / An Aesthetic Way. |
| Posted by: | John Schertzer |
| Date/Time: | 16/06/2003 14:55:20 |
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Stephen, Thanks so much for your post, it's extremely useful and inspiring. I will only remark, at this point, about a couple of things that come to mind: First of all, I don't think your modeling project was a failure, particularly because you seemed to get some really important implicit information, and seemed to have absorbed what's really essential in Cartier-Bresson's work especially: "e) Life has become less work and more of an adventure since completing the study f) Coincidences seem to feature positively in the development of my life." I don't know if you can find a way of making these abilities explicit, as complex and elusive as it may now seem, but I think you're got the gold right there. Perhaps you have, and I only need to read back over your paper. This also may be the elegant core of his work, what you actually wanted from modeling his photographic technique, a resource that you built for yourself which seems to have generalized through other areas of your life. I believe -- and I'm not a very experienced nlper at all, I realize -- a model which can be transfered to other contexts is surely an elegant one, since it's not dependent on a lot of the details of the original context. Thanks again, JS |