Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing the rhythm and essence of subjects in photography, capturing moments that hold deeper meaning.
Andre Kertesz suggests that everything around us has its own unique presence or 'rhythm,' and understanding this is crucial to appreciating life and art. A photograph serves as a freeze-frame of this essence, allowing viewers to connect with a fleeting moment and its intrinsic meaning, thereby immortalizing its significance.
In practice
In a photography class, discussing how Kertesz's quote captures the essence of a great shot.
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.
The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
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