It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.