What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can’t go out and logically plan a picture, but when you come back, reason then takes over and verifies or rejects whatever you’ve done. So that’s why I say that reason and intuition are not in conflict–they strengthen each other.
Wynn Bullock
I have to agree…
I don’t plan photographs. Something I see either moves me to photograph it or it doesn’t — it’s what I call stopping me in my tracks, or grabbing me in the gut. I’ll explore it from different angles or perspectives, but that exploration is seldom verbal or logical. More often it’s visual and intuitive. The thinking and reasoning come after the fact… sometimes the image works, oftentimes not. That’s the way I photograph… I don’t know about you.
Wynn Bullock wasn’t as well known as some of the other photographers working in his day, though he was quite well known in some circles, and was one of the master photographers during the middle of the last century.
I’ve read a few interviews with him, and he was a very interesting man as well as an exceptional photographer. Some of his thoughts resonate profoundly with me, though strangely enough I never really connected with his photography. Maybe you will.
