Monday, September 21, 2009

BILL EVANS VIDEO

Universal musical mind in all people.
Various styles of music spoken. Some effort needs to be exposed because of different cultures. Rely on lament rather than a professional. Professional focuses on mechanical, lament more so goes with what he/she already possesses.
"Serious influence."
Freeing the conscious to establish the spontaneous creative element.
"improvisation became lost..."
"Jazz is a PROCESS of making music."
"able to make music in the moment"
Is photography more like classical or jazz????
Classical is said to be more composed and set whereas jazz is more easily improvised as long as it's in the same key.

I think that photography can be much like both. If classical is composed and set, well photography can be too. One can be in a room with the perfect lighting, the right helper, the perfect studio, and the best camera and compose an image. At the same time, an image can be improvised like jazz music. One can go out on a random day, extremely bright light (sun) OR not much light at all (cloudy), have a random subject and it be spontaneous but still be just as beautiful as an image that was composed to look beautiful. Professional photographers are not in one category. We have those who are in their studio day after day shooting still-lives or taking pictures for an advertising company while others are out in the world every day taking pictures of "life," what is in front of them at that moment, a moment that might otherwise be lost forever.

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