This is the first article in the "Real Image" Little Encyclopedia.
And God said, with light, there is light.
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Capture the Spirit Light
If we're interested in looking at the origin of the concept of photography, it's easy to find the English word "photon n.
The combination of "grappy n., depiction" is named as an activity that is focused on capturing light.
The Chinese translation of the photography into a "shadow", which is only a visible light. As the back of the light -- it confirms its existence. It can be said that the essence of the photo is "light."
Photo History.
In the 1931 Photo History, Benjamin refers to a portrait of Kafka's youth, stating that "the early man, with a "aura", surrounds them, such as a psychic, into their eyes and gives them a sense of enrichment and stability". This light is a "gentle interwoven time and space, a unique appearance or appearance, however close it may be, of distance".
A portrait of Kafka's childhood.
It exists in every living body that looks at the camera, nears a spiritual reality, a sacred gas field that gathers the will of life.
Benyamin has painted the light for human experience - "Summer afternoon break, reminiscent of the mountains at the end of the day or of the branches on the top of the head that sow the shadows of the trees until this moment of contemplation melts into the image of the things they care for". This is to absorb the light of mountains or branches."
This fine example relates to two characteristics of the light: the light is in the distance, not in direct contact; the light is the interaction of "seeing", and the light of seeing a thing means giving it the ability to look back at us.
For Benjamin, photography, which is gradually becoming a reproduction technique, irreversibly leads human beings into the age of light. But where did the camera take the light? Can't we really see it today?
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Film
Meeting with the light.
The film camera is a sensor. The film is extracted from pig skins, and the feeling of light is naturally animal warm. The negative is swirled with silver nitrate particles, and the organization of particles on each film is irregular, so each film is unique. Silver nitrate particles have light properties, and the principle of light following pinhole imaging is mirrored through glass through a special and direct physical-chemical reaction.
As time passes, the film will be removed, and the encounter with light makes it a living object.
Flashes and stage lights, two magic machines.
There is a sense of security with the continuous lighting of the stage. When you enter the stage light, you get a constant look at the theatre. And as the focus of the heat is on this moment, under the stage lights, I'm transparent. This is the moment of personal light - the body is activated, and I can safely and loosely open my soul.
The flashlights used for the graphic photography consist of two light bulbs. The tungsten light bulb, which is a model lamp, is dark yellow and acts as a lighting scene - ensuring clear vision and focus. The flash bulb, which acts as a working light, only shines at the moment when the fast door is activated. At a time of high-speed exposure, the naked eye can't tell what it actually sees. It was also an unpredictable moment of unconsciousness, and its occurrence depended on an unconscious interaction between photographers and the target.
Tungsten lamps are activated from the moment of darkness to the moment of light and are a concentrated reaction of an energy explosion. This ejection, like electrocution, convulsed from a secure dark yellow light, struck by a super-real moment - an unconscious truth revealed immediately.
This is the moment of light. As an irrational product, it was not triggered by changes in the position and expression of the target. Prior to that, there would be a long period of visualization between the photographer and the target, until they were connected to each other at the cognitive level so that they would not approach at the moment when the fast door was pressed.
In about a minute or two before it happens, the cameraman's eyes will close almost. With a high concentration of condensation, he concentrates all his consciousness on objects in the field, like meditation, so that all feelings in the body flow. Until the moment of communion came - we were touched by each other.
It's a moment of light in the heart, and it goes off in the moment when the flashlight leaves.
Through the baptism of the dark room, the light can be repeated in the look back.
When the film was washed out, the person in the photograph looked back and recalled that moment. The light is in this relationship, and when it is seen, it is on the other side, it is called, it is confirmed and it exists.
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Photosynthesis
In volume VII of Ideal Nations, Plato tells the famous cave story. In a cave, there is only one narrow cave that leads to the outside world, and there is little light coming into the cave from the cave. There was a group of people living in a cave behind them a fire. The body of the group is bound and unable to move. In the world outside the caves, people of all shapes are moving, and people in the caves can only look at the shadows of the outsiders of the flames on the walls of the caves and think that they are real. At that point, a man was lifted from the shackles and stood up out of the cave, and in the light of the outside, he was appalled by what he had seen.
Plato's cave metaphor.
This cave is actually a camera. You see shadows, but the desire to find true light. The process of summoning and looking back at the light has made us see the shadow of ourselves and has opened up the potential of the light that enters our hearts.
This has led to the decision to go outside the cave and enter a new cycle of metabolism of life. That's what photosynthesis does.
"There is a small mouth in the mountains, as if there was light."
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