Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/26
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Henry Ambrose jotted down the following:
> For an experiment try turning off all that you "know" about taking
> pictures then go out and do it. Shoot a roll of only things that interest
> you. Walk around until you see something interesting. Don't "dress them
> up" shoot EXACTLY what piqued your interest. Don't use any of the rules
> you know, reject them. Come back and look really hard at the film. What's
> happening?
Yeah, the two schools. I'm of the other one: First you learn the rules,
then you break them, but in interesting ways. I don't believe that you can
turn off what you know. You carry it with you at all times. You cannot
switch it off. The trick is to know it so well that you use it in more
abstract ways, that you break free of the lowest level of knowing it. I
believe that with my way of doing things, the ability to analyse (the "look
really hard at the film" part) is enhanced and rather than doing and "seeing
what happened" you can conciously do. Which, ultimately, allows you to
express more.
M.
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