MY HOUSE HAS WINGS…
See What Cannot be Seen.
We will never repeat it enough:
photography is, like a drawing or a painting. A manner of producing images in
two dimensions, it’s a mean of creating and not of reproducing as it was
naively believed. In the beginnings of photography it was asserted that this,
reproduced reality exactly.
Seriously, it’s another glimpse to the
world. The human eye was once compared to a camera, but it’s a misleading
approximation. Let’s remember some evidences: a photographer is not a painter;
the lens is not a human eye and nevertheless the latter is not objectively
efficient.
The photographer directs it and the
photographic device obeys, and it is at one same time, that the final
photographic image depends so much on man as well as in optics.
Nothing more simple tan a photograph: You
look through a lens, a button is pushed and then you obtain a photograph.
Thereupon we are satisfied to be able to take with us the image of two little
girls sunbathing, or a landscape on a bank of a lake , either because we know
the two girls or because we liked that specific place. This is what the majority of people have to do to
obtain an image.
But only art will be able to retain an
audience and it will not be due to
a matter of feelings, but of quality. When a technique is at such close
range of everybody, it is a bigger merit to extract from it something
exceptional. So then, look at the pictures of José Martínez.
SERGE FUCHEREAU
FRANCE 2009
