p.3 #3 · BACK TO FUJI with my 2nd X-H2-based system
Plzenaak wrote:
“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
As usual, the context alters meaning. Apparently said as a witty remark during a portrait session when the sitter (Helmut Newton) commented on the effect of HCB's shaky hands on the likely picture quality.
Whether as a result of old age or too much vin ordinaire with lunch isn't recorded.
He certainly wasn't commenting on AF issues, real or imagined!
p.3 #4 · BACK TO FUJI with my 2nd X-H2-based system
gyoung143 wrote:
As usual, the context alters meaning. Apparently said as a witty remark during a portrait session when the sitter (Helmut Newton) commented on the effect of HCB's shaky hands on the likely picture quality.
Whether as a result of old age or too much vin ordinaire with lunch isn't recorded.
He certainly wasn't commenting on AF issues, real or imagined!
Yes, if they had used a Fuji at the time, the quote would be: "Consistent sharpness with Fuji AF-S is a bourgeois concept" Cheers.
p.3 #5 · BACK TO FUJI with my 2nd X-H2-based system
Nielk Mike wrote:
Yes, if they had used a Fuji at the time, the quote would be: "Consistent sharpness with Fuji AF-S is a bourgeois concept" Cheers.
If he had used any digital camera I expect it would have been on manual focus, in that situation your own skills could easily achieve focus, artifical aids most likely to give an approximation and no pressure of time to affect the issue.
p.3 #6 · BACK TO FUJI with my 2nd X-H2-based system
gyoung143 wrote:
As usual, the context alters meaning. Apparently said as a witty remark during a portrait session when the sitter (Helmut Newton) commented on the effect of HCB's shaky hands on the likely picture quality.
Whether as a result of old age or too much vin ordinaire with lunch isn't recorded.
He certainly wasn't commenting on AF issues, real or imagined!
A lot of quotes like that one get taken out of context and applied to situations where the original person would not have applied them.
Another example, though I don’t have the precise quote handy, Edward Weston reportedly once said, I believe in reference to Ansel Adams’ photography, that there’s nothing worth photographing some short distance (maybe in was 500 feet?) from a road.
It was a joke. ;-)
Photographers (and lots of other famous folks) make jokes. They get repeated. Eventually people who weren’t there and who regard those folks as “icons” start to take those words in ways in which they were not intended.
