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至于一些人对卡蒂埃-布勒松的“决定性瞬间”的误解,可能也影响着对于卡蒂埃-布勒松的评价。所谓的抓住“决定性瞬间”,我们不能狭隘、肤浅地将之理解为 “抓住被摄对象最有趣的那个瞬间”。这样的理解,势必会得出这样的结论:卡蒂埃-布勒松只不过是个抓拍大师而已,其创作缺乏深入的思考,其作品只具有很强的趣味性。事实上卡蒂埃-布勒松的“决定性瞬间”指的是:任何发展运动着的事物都有着其外在形态与内在本质最为接近的那一时刻,这是最为真实的一刻,它具有总结了一切和永恒的意义,它暗示着过去、现在及未来的一切。而这一时刻,就是所谓的“决定性瞬间”。由此可见,摄影师若想抓住这个“决定性瞬间”,绝不只是个抓拍技巧的问题。其关键首先在于,摄影师能否挖掘出事物的本质意义,然后才是能否发现最能真实反映本质的那一瞬间,最后才是能否利用相机抓住这一瞬间。这其中,能否挖掘出事物的本质意义,靠的是观察、思考,是一个人的综合文化修养;而能否意识到“决定性瞬间”,靠的是直觉的敏感,是较强的造型能力。至于最终能否抓住这一瞬间,才是个拍摄技巧问题。就此,卡蒂埃-布勒松在他的《决定性瞬间》中写到:“摄影,是在一刹那之间同时对两个方面的认知:一方面是认知有关事件的意义;一方面是认知能适当去表达这个事件的精确构成。”卡蒂埃-布勒松也很讨厌别人将“决定性瞬间”解释为一种技巧,并争辩说,它不是一招把戏,也不是一件工具,它是一种“观世之道”。与深厚的综合修养和敏锐的洞察力相比,抓拍技巧并不是“决定性瞬间”价值的核心,也不是卡蒂埃-布勒松大师地位的支点。至于说:“卡蒂埃-布勒松注重的是瞬间思维,而不是深刻思考。”还可能包含着另外的误解。因为即使是端着相机捕捉“决定性瞬间”的时刻,也很难说是“瞬间思维”在起作用。如果说此时是“以平时深刻思考为基础的艺术直觉”在发挥着主要作用,可能会更确切些。
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If photographing is a way of understanding reality, others and oneself, it cannot be taken merely as a device through which reality is recorded. Instead, it must be revelatory. If photography is indeed a 'joint operation of the brain, the eye, and the heart', as Cartier-Bresson put it in 'The Decisive Moment', it cannot merely be a product of spontaneity. If it requires awareness, patience and skill, it cannot merely involve immediacy of action. It seems as if Cartier-Bresson was fascinated by the act of photography, but not the crafts or techniques surrounding it, by what the photograph can record and lay bare, but not in what it can prove. In his own words: 'My passion has never been for photography 'in-itself', but for the possibility - through forgetting yourself - of recording in a fraction of a second the emotion of the subject, and the beauty of the form; that is, a geometry awakened by what's offered'. (The Mind's Eye)
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