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This is the second part, and we talk about pure viewing as well as reality.
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Matsumoto Nankoku was born in Beijing in 1974. New Shanghai man. In 2009, he began to take pictures, and in 2013, he began to sell his own photos on Taobao, and he was good at portraits, which was deeply loved by the majority of female friends. He has won the first prize of the Douban Ultra Low B Strength Idiot Bad Photo Photography Group - [Super Mary] Bad Photo Photography Contest three times, and the honor of second and third place several times. The color of freedom is a set of works, which are hand-washed by the author. To pay tribute to the film that is about to disappear, to Miss Yamaguchi Momoe, please flip through it at the slowest speed, thank you.
"There's no particularly tight control, because I want to fly before I shoot, otherwise it's not fun." Look at more than two thousand sheets one by one, select what you think is good, and then find the beginning and end of the sequence and edit it to the way it is now. The rhythm conversion uses the film method, such as the continuous shooting near the end, which is different from the close-up rhythm of the large number of vertical widths at the beginning.
But just the visual rhythm of the movie, it has nothing to do with the narrative, the story is not so important. In fact, I can tell the story of each photo, but I can't write it. The audience is free and cannot deprive the audience of the space of imagination.
Photographs should be seen purely and cannot rely on narrative, otherwise they are not independent. What brings the photograph to the viewer is the reality he faces, not the logic and narrative of the photographer."
"Photos are not the same as words. If I tell a story, your understanding of the story depends on your experience, and your imagination of the story behind it, cannot be experienced by me, but the certainty of the text creates an illusion that people mistakenly think that they understand. To cancel the narrative of the image is to cancel the usefulness and meaning and restore it to pure reality.
If people want to live purely, they have to understand two things: people can't make everyone like it, and they can't expect to be recognized by the majority, so they are gone. You also have to understand that you are not so important.
It's especially good to take pictures, and it makes you pay more attention to the world than to yourself. Photography can restore people's perception of the concrete real world, which is particularly important in today's efficient world where human life is increasingly abstracted and conceptualized, but at the same time, photography itself faces a huge danger of being conceptualized.
Photography should not produce a spectacle, it focuses on the qualities of the subject, the things that distinguish it from other kinds and exist independently, but do not produce surprises. Meanings and stories are made up by people, and they seem weak in the face of reality. The person taking the picture should be open to all that is in front of you, without anticipation or extension."
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