FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

烧掉自己的底片

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

1973 · 摄影师

1973 年,中平卓马发表文章《为什么是植物图鉴》,否定了自己以往粗颗粒、晃动、失焦的照片。

同一年,他烧掉了大量底片和照片,有资料说几乎全部烧掉了。此后他改拍清晰、正面的彩色照片,像图鉴那样把东西直接摆在眼前。

不妨试试

用两种方式拍同一样东西:一次晃动、模糊,一次正面、清晰。比较两张照片分别让你注意到什么。

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

中平卓马

资料出处

接着读

柔焦也可以是选择

蕨叶留下自己的轮廓

纪实,也可以很私人

故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

Burning his own negatives

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

1973 · Photographer

In 1973 Takuma Nakahira published the essay "Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?", rejecting his own grainy, blurred, out-of-focus pictures.

That year he burned many of his negatives and prints; one account says almost all of them. He turned to sharp, frontal colour photographs that show things plainly, like the plates of an illustrated guide.

Try this

Photograph the same object twice: once blurred and moving, once sharp and frontal. Compare what each picture makes you notice.

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

Takuma Nakahira

Sources

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