foto de autor desconhecido"But more importantly, I love photography. This really just sort of blows my mind. I start thinking about the fact that I am holding a once-sensitized piece of glass, that contains the imprint of light that bounced off of these three men over 100 years ago. In a sense it is almost a "light shadow" cast by them and captured on this glass.
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I know that even film is not permanent, nothing is really. Not our negatives. Nor us. Or our planet, or even our universe. But nonetheless, I am pretty certain that I will not be able to pull any of my CDs of digital files out of a box in 100 years and still have them be usable. Nor any CF cards. My external drives won't last more than 10 years I bet. My digital files won't ever be anything more than bits and bytes. Sure I can print them, but those are just copies of copies. Better than nothing, but still far lacking.
And so I shoot film, because I like to think each of those negatives carries the physical effect of light off of a beautiful waterfall striking it. Or the light bouncing off of my son Owen playing when he was 6 months old. And then again when he was 12 months old. Or even the very light that reflected off of an old friend no longer living. It is not so hard to hold a negative, or a plate like this, in your hand and feel like you are holding just a tiny shred of some past time itself. The last physical remainder of a moment long extinct, and that when I hold a negative in my hand, I am touching that light again. And that is one of the things that drives me to shoot film. That deep sense of not just recording light and time, but preserving it.
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” -- John Berger " - Zeb Andrews - ler na totalidade aqui
Obrigada ao Mário, por esta pequena maravilha.
3 comentários:
Já ganhaste mais um argumento.... ;)
Tem piada que isto para mim sempre foi tão natural como beber água. Continua a ser... O argumento enfim, dará jeito porque há sempre quem teime que tem que haver uma razão lógica pra tudo.
"It is not so hard to hold a negative, or a plate like this, in your hand and feel like you are holding just a tiny shred of some past time itself."
e isto, para além de tudo o resto que ele diz. é como o gozo que eu tiro de tocar "calhaus". sejam eles cromeleques ou monumentos. é a história que carregam. é quase como uma viagem no tempo. fechas os olhos e quase vês todos os outros que as tocaram ou os construíram.
já tive discussões acesas dentro de igrejas por causa disso. um bocado, assim, como defender o analógico :P eheheheh
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