l’impalsion spontanee…
Posted by tharvan on November 9, 2003
The original text, which I am quoting here, is, of course, in French but for making editing easier I omitted French punctuation entirely (forgive me). I am not attempting any translation, which would most probably be awful. But the “french” of it are rather obvious:
“Photographier et dessiner”- mise en parallele -La photographie est, pour moi, l’impulsion spontanee d’une attention visuelle perpetuelle, qui saisit l’instant et son eternite.
Le dessin, lui, par sa graphologie elabore ce que notre consience a saisi de cet instant.
La photo est une action immediate; la dessin une meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 27-4-1992
The most straightforward dealing of the primeval confrontation between photography and drawing, from a master that has done both.
