Monthly Archive for September, 2009

On Photography by Susan Sontag

買這本書前看了一些書評,有些人對這本書很反感,認為Sontag對攝影的批評太偏激,這反而令我更想懷著認同的心去看書。

因為我想認真去攝影,需要最嚴厲的批評,去癲覆目前膠著的狀態。

看到這幾句,正正揭露我沉迷拍照的底蘊:

The photographer is always trying to colonize new experiences or find new ways to look at familiar subjects — to fight against boredom. For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

裡面提及自殺身亡的攝影師Dianne Arbus,轉述她說:

One of the things I felt I suffered from as a kid, was that I never felt adversity. I was confined in a sense of unreality… And the sense of being immune was, ludicrous as it seems, a painful one.

SO TRUE…

以下是我遊走街頭去”fight against boredom”時拍的東西…