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The Photographer

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Zeev Parush11-Jan-2008 10:33
great shot - great words ! - V
Martha Albuquerque19-Sep-2006 11:06
Brilhante shot! v
Guest 19-Sep-2006 05:56
Wonderful tribute to the person we know the best...'we'
Guest 19-Sep-2006 01:37
This is really impressive, Ana. I love this image and the thoughts you quoted. Bravo!
Guest 18-Sep-2006 14:05
:)
Craig Persel17-Sep-2006 23:16
Fantastic. I was a big fan of Sontag and once saw her speak in Dallas. Brilliant lady. Great concept and execution.
Guenter Eh17-Sep-2006 14:52
Visual and intellectual a delight Ana!
Kal Khogali17-Sep-2006 13:28
When I am taking a picture of someone, it is as if what matters most is that I walk away having told a story of that fraction of a second, and with meaninig. I get angry and frustrated when I don't manage to do it, not for me, but for the person or the moment, that deserved a greater expression. At the heart of all photography for me is to record those moments of humanity we all take for granted and gloss over. Something as simple as someone taking a picture out of a window,absorbed in what they love, tells so much more than simply looking in to their eyes....Agnes is the symbolic photographer, absorbed in that viewfinder...Here is a quote for you from a less articulate photographer...;

Someone turned around to me one day and said, does that thing never stay at home? I said "I have two choices...taking pictutres in my mind...(which I do by the way when I do ever venture without the camera), or with the camera...the ones with the camera will last longer" ;-)) K
Guest 17-Sep-2006 12:59
You are a master of the difficult light! Brilliant work.
type17-Sep-2006 11:19
Words and image converge and reinforce the other. How appropriate that Ágnes is totally absorbed in the moment, as Bresson said, faculties converging to capture fleeting reality. Great that you two share this understanding.
Sam_C17-Sep-2006 05:33
Perfect poetic match to your image Ana! Wonderfu, and intellectual as always.
Adalberto Tiburzi17-Sep-2006 04:35
You are reaching perfection in this kind of images!
Adal
Guest 17-Sep-2006 03:22
Wonderful image and meaningful words.
You're so good w/ these,Ana!!
Roe..17-Sep-2006 01:00
you are both so focused...I love this image..the words are perfect...v
Guest 17-Sep-2006 00:37
Yes, Ana, I like the ideas of the words around the picture.
But if you take something out of somebody, you portrait, when I see your pictures I am a bit in yourself.Now , I guess I know a lot about you. Not of your life, but about your mind and ideas.As well as you do the same with others.
This is a sideline game I love, sometimes more than the photography.
Abraço,
jorge
Phil Douglis17-Sep-2006 00:12
And one more thought from perhaps the most articulate photographer of them all -- a fitting addition to this
lovely image of a brilliant photographer portrayed at work by still another brilliant photographer:

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. "
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Doria17-Sep-2006 00:03
This last comment is so funny as I was just telling a friend that someday technology will advance to the point where all we need to do is look, conciously think "photo" and that image will be sent to a cerebral database accessible by computer. I guess we must be careful what we wish for.

Love you work, Ana.

Doria
Guest 17-Sep-2006 00:01
A shaman gathers treasures within a pouch.Deep in the psyche.Trinkets of memories, symbols and spells.To capture an essence, a power, a pathway experience of being human.From the melting pot of realities shifting seamlessly beyond our control.Grasping a momento and casting a molten impression.As a signature mandala among the sands.Making art into life.
Christine P. Newman16-Sep-2006 23:21
Ana, This is so special. A nice tribute to a great friend.
For you, the following quote by Alfred Eisenstaedt regarding photography:
"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."
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