Once I was standing in a subway station looking at a set of ancient photographs and there was one, taken a hundred years ago, showing a girl stepping into the pool of a long-forgotten spa. I looked at her limbs, barely shown under the bathing suit that was surely trendy in 1900 and felt the heat growing inside as I studied her face, bound by a spell that left only one question: what is this magic, how can I feel attracted to a woman whose bones must have turned to dust long ago? How could anything made her so eternal, so lively, that I could want her beauty even after a hundred years?
That was the moment when the magic of photography put a spell on me.
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"There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art."
Alfred Stieglitz, American Amateur Photographer, 1893
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Found this gem while looking for some info on Wen P's behalf:
"'And what do I call straight photography,' (one might) say, 'can you define it?' Well, that's easy enough. Rely on your camera, on your eye, on your good taste and your knowledge of composition, consider every fluctuation of color, light and shade, study lines and values and space division, patiently wait until the scene or object of your pictured vision reveals itself in its supremest moment of beauty, in short, compose the picture which you intend to take so well that the negative will be absolutely perfect and in need of no... manipulation." Sadakihi Hartmann
Private comment: to get to this level of creative alertness one probably has to spend a life in a zen-buddhist monastery... Actually I think the only pics coming even close to this are enso-circles. So, a toast to unsharpness.
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To leave a comment please register firstChristian Woltz, 22.10.2009 at 11:40h
RESPECT!
Amazing pictures!
Regards,
Christian
Aydin Yener, 1.07.2009 at 19:16h
amazing gallery!
/respect
Robert G. Mueller, 14.05.2009 at 19:23h
AIKIDO-Center Siegen NRW! Hab meine erste Prüfung im belgischen Kendoverband abgelegt!
Das Schwangerenbild von Dir ist der knaller! Ich muss glaub ich auch mal so eins von mir machen!
Robert
werner reckling, 6.05.2009 at 18:39h
dein p-bild ist etwas lütt ;))
Adri°°, 31.03.2009 at 21:20h
tolle Bilder machst du!!
Rolf Pessel, 31.03.2009 at 8:21h
eindrückliche Bilder, wirklich sehenswert was Du uns hier bietest.
LG Rolf
petermoser.at, 3.02.2009 at 15:57h
Danke für deine Anmerkung, die mich - ganz kurz - ein wenig stolz gemacht und jedenfalls sehr gefreut hat. Viel Spaß mit der "Muse"! Ich hab dich mal auf "orange" gesetzt, damit mir nichts entgeht.
lg, Peter
Friedemann Riebe, 23.12.2008 at 20:22h
Boldog karáczonyt!
Üdv!
Friedemann
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Tamás Falcsik, 22.08.2008 at 21:45h
Szia Balázs,
Köszönöm szépen a látogatást.
T. :)
WooV , 25.07.2008 at 20:23h
Hallo Balazs,
Danke für Deine Anmerkung zu meinem Storch.
Beeindruckente Bilder die Du zeigst.
Fantastisch finde ich vorallem Deine Portrais.
Mach weiter so....viel gutes Licht
Wolfgang
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