不要漠视平淡

照片就在你面前，咔嚓！
这句话出自《摄影大师对话录》。

Frank Horvat : So how did you spend your following days - for instance in Calcutta? Did you try to recall the feeling of those first fifteen minutes?

Edouard Boubat : My assignment was to cover the life of a man living in the street - as you know, about one third of the people in that city live and sleep on the pavement. What I remember best are the mornings, that is something else I would like to talk to you about, even if it doesn't exactly answer your question. But I am doing it on purpose, just to annoy you a little. I would like to speak of those mornings. Click. I remember people still asleep, like corpses in shrouds, in fact some were actual corpses, in actual shrouds. Those mornings with that fabulous light - I always loved that light. Or the mornings in New York, we haven't been there together, but we certainly lived the same thing: one goes out to have breakfast, the sky is blue, when you leave the coffee shop, the fellow behind the counter says: "Take care" (English in the original), it's just a wonderful thing. Or that other morning, when I woke up in an Indian village, the previous evening the people had welcomed me, saying: "You may sleep here." So I really slept there, on the ground, there wasn't anything else, I got up very early - when you sleep on the ground you get up early - and I made that photo of the village, with those hens, that cow, in that foggy light. And on that occasion, to come back to your question, there was nothing to be refused, the photo was in front of me. Click. I only shot two or three, there was no reason to take fifty. In those rare moments, when there is nothing to be refused, one doesn't have to shoot ten rolls, the photo is there. Click.

Photo by Edouard Boubat

http://www.horvatland.com/pages/entrevues/01-boubat-en_en.htm

注2：另一本书：加拿大