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IT IS NOT JUST THE WEATHER THAT IS CHANGING, hopefully, tomorrow will bring a big change of another kind.
In his book, THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S EYE, John Szarkowski wrote:
"...Immobilizing these thin slices of time has been a source of continuing fascination for the photographer. And while pursuing this experience he discovered something else: he discovered that there was a pleasure and beauty in this fragmenting of time that had little to do with what was happening. It had to do rather with seeing the momentary patterning of lines and shapes that had been previously concealed within the flux of movement. Cartier-Bresson defined his commitment to this new beauty with the phrase The Decisive Moment, but the phrase has been misunderstood: the thing that happens at the decisive moment is not a dramatic climax but a visual one....
He wrote that under the heading of TIME which was one of his five key elements of photography: The Thing Itself, The Detail, The Frame, Time and Vantage Point. Later in the book in the section devoted to pictures which illustrate the idea of Time, he went on to write that the moment was...
"...decisive not because of the external event (the ball meeting the bat) but because in that moment the flux of changing forms and patterns was sensed to have achieved balance and clarity and order-because the image became, for an instant, a picture. "
When I first began making pictures, I did not have any conscious grasp of this definition of the idea of The Decisive Moment. Yet, nevertheless, I was unconsciously pursuing it. That it, in fact, was what defined my way of seeing / vision. And it was not untill a number of years later, that I finally consciously pieced together the connection of this idea with my way of seeing.