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Notes on software and processes for collecting, analyzing and acting on data |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson coined the term "the decisive moment". He thought of photography as a tool to live in the world, not a way to control it. bresson: For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity and the master of the instant, which questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames through the viewfinder. Because deciding is a verb in English, it's too easy to think of deciding as an action. Because decision is a noun, a decision tends to take on existence as a thing itself. But there is no deciding and there are no decisions in the world. These are our constructs to explain why actors and agents do one thing and not another. When there are alternatives, doing one thing and not another is the choice. Pointing a camera and releasing the shutter is a very simple act. Yet where and when you take the picture determines everything about the image. Photography has been a tool that first helped me see the world with more understanding and then helped me be in the world with more clarity. If its art, it does that for the viewer as well as the photographer. Recommended reading:
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