Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing the rhythm and essence of subjects in photography, capturing moments that hold deeper meaning.
Andre Kertesz suggests that everything around us has its own unique presence or 'rhythm,' and understanding this is crucial to appreciating life and art. A photograph serves as a freeze-frame of this essence, allowing viewers to connect with a fleeting moment and its intrinsic meaning, thereby immortalizing its significance.
In practice
In a photography class, discussing how Kertesz's quote captures the essence of a great shot.
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.
The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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