hcb quote

[Teuthida]

I generally discount any artist's explanation/explication of what they do or how they do it. IMO, creativity is intuitive and not describable in rational catagories.

i'm no HCB, but I assume my experience is similar to his - I see something that resonates with me and I shoot. All subsequent rationalizations don't really add anything or get to the crux of the process.

 

[alistair.o]

Is there not an assumption that only one picture was taken? Are we certain that he did not look, weigh up and put the lens in and shoot several times?

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

LOL, well, OK. For 'sense of geometry' one could easily substitute 'spatial relationships, patterns and shapes'. I doubt he is referring to geometry in the mathematical sense i.e. get your school text books and protractor out, but I could be wrong.

I also doubt he's referring to Earth (geo) measurements (metria), topology or Eucledian spaces. LOL indeed.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

he was talking about geometric shapes...there are a few interviews where he speaks of seeing shapes as he composes...making the elements in the image and the shapes work together.

Who would have figured *that* out in the context of photography?? And I don't mean "photography" in the sense of take your text books out and let's get some light quanta written out by some differential equations.