The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo, for
"light," and graph, for "drawing." "Drawing with
light" is a way of describing photography. A photographer is someone
literally drawing with light. A man writing and rewriting the world with lights
and shadows.
導演Wim Wenders 拍攝影家Sebastião Salgado的紀錄片《薩爾多加的凝視(The Salt of the Earth)》引起了沸沸揚揚的正反討論,但無論反對藝術紀實攝影,或支持影像藝術的華美,爭議的雙方皆一致對這部片給予一定的讚揚與肯定。這實在太令我好奇了,也趕緊去瞧瞧,究竟它是用了一種雙向取巧的投機手法,還是一則偉大的當代寓言神話?