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A straight photograph cannot be abstract

by imagist on September 4, 2008

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

When you see a fish you don’t think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water… If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.” — Constantin Brancusi

yesterday: a leaf

fell as I walked to the car

evidence of change

(Leica R8/DMR, 6omm Macro Elmarit)

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