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.
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.
That which is creative must create itself.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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