A sheet of contacts, 36 exposures, six strips of photographs, taken one after the other. You read them from left to right like a text. It’s the diary of a photographer. You see what he sees through the viewfinder: his hesitations, his hits, his misses, his choices. He choses one moment, one angle, another moment, another angle.
He insists, he stops.
You rarely see the contacts of a photographer. You only see the picture chosen. You don’t see the before or the after, like you do on a proof sheet.
A picture is taken at 125th of a second. What do you know of a photographer’s work? One hundred pictures? Let’s say 125. Well, that’s a body of work. That comes to a total of one second. Let’s say more, like 250 photographs. That would be a rather large body of work. And that would come out to two seconds.
The life of a photographer, even of a great photographer, they say: Two Seconds.
Ok.. contacts. You see the before and the after. Why one picture is taken rather than the other. And then why one is chosen rather than another.
