Then looking at other people’s pictures really helped. I especially looked at fashion photography, especially in European magazines, and film. I am interested in reproducing a situation that carries an emotion and in harnessing real emotions into an artificial setup.
I am much more perceptive than I am creative and the inner worlds of people and things offer so much more riches than one person’s imagination.
The problem is the photoshoot has to happen on Wednesday morning and how do you highly organize a platform that will allow for miracles to happen. Beforehand, I like to choose my places, my lights, my colors and my feelings, but on Wednesday morning it is all a part of a higher construction plan. Then I would like to be very sensitive to that plan, to communicate with its mood and try not to miss the unexpected miracle.
Unexpected is a part of definition of “miracle” I think.
Jaques Rivette said “cinema is by definition a lie and the only way it can be honest is to be about itself.” There are many different truths in that quote, all very relevant to me. Cinema and photography are also a ritual where different physical/technical motions determine the spiritual outcome. There is a conceptual side, an absurdist side and esthetics so tremendously guide the emotions….
Another friend said that “there is so much experimentation in photography and yet its laws of composition are still so archaic.” So many artificial aspects have to be dealt with for the apparition of the real; even just giving up a dimension. And, of course, the hang-ups of the form are the language of the form.