Berger with Bresson
“The only thing about photography which interests me, he says, is the aim, the taking aim,
Like a marksman.
Do you know the Zen Buddhist treatise on archery? Georges Braque gave it to me in ’43.
I’m afraid not.
It’s a state of being, a question of openness, of forgetting yourself.
You don’t aim blind?
No, there’s the geometry. Changw your position by a millimeter and the geometry changes.
What you call geometry is aesthetics?
Not at all. It’s like what mathematicians and physicists call elegance, when they’re discussing a theory. If an approach is elegant it may be getting near to what’s true.
…What counts in a photo is its plenitude and its simplicity…”
John Berger, from “Henri Cartier-Bresson”, Aperture, No 138, 1995
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