कलाकार एक ऐसा काम करता है जो और कोई नहीं करता - वह मौजूदा संचार कोडों को तोड़ता है और उनके कुछ तत्वों को मिलाकर ऐसी संरचनाएँ तैयार करता है जिनसे दुनिया की नई तस्वीरें बनाई जा सकें।
A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world.
A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world.
देखना कभी भी तटस्थ नहीं होता। 'बस यूँ ही देखना' जैसी कोई बात कभी हो ही नहीं सकती।
Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.
Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.
[तस्वीर में] जिस पूर्णता, सामंजस्य और पहचान को हम देखते हैं, वह वास्तव, में हमारी कल्पना का प्रक्षेपण है, जो एक बदहाल हकीकत को ठुकराकर एक काल्पनिक समृद्धि को अपनाती है।
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.
हमारा यह दृढ़ विश्वास कि हम यह चुनने के लिए स्वतंत्र हैं कि हम किसी तस्वीर से क्या अर्थ निकालते हैं, उस मिलीभगत को छिपा लेता है जिसमें हम केवल देखने मात्र से शामिल हो जाते हैं।
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.
बिना कैप्शन वाली कलात्मक तस्वीर भी देखते ही भाषा के दायरे में घिर जाती है: हमारी यादों में, हमारी कल्पनाओं में, शब्दों और छवियों के टुकड़े लगातार आपस में घुलमिल जाते हैं और एक-दूसरे की जगह लेते रहते हैं।
Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.
Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.
फोटोग्राफरों के बीच शायद यह आम धारणा है कि दुनिया में अर्थ वैसे ही मिल जाते हैं जैसे मैदानों में खरगोश मिलते हैं, और इसके लिए बस उन्हें ढूँढने की प्रतिभा और उनकी तस्वीर लेने का कौशल होना चाहिए... लेकिन फोटोग्राफिक अवसरवादी जिस सच की तलाश में बटन पर उंगली रखे इंतज़ार करता है, वह सच उतने ही बड़े धोखे की तरह है जितना कि स्वतंत्र रचनात्मकता का विचार।
It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as great a mystification as the notion of autonomous creativity.
It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as great a mystification as the notion of autonomous creativity.
किसी पहचान [या उसकी तस्वीर] के संबंध में एकमात्र प्रासंगिक राजनीतिक सवाल यह नहीं है कि क्या यह वास्तव में सुसंगत है? बल्कि यह है कि यह वास्तव में हासिल क्या करती है?
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?