17th December, 2010.
Many photographers are as equally eloquent of thought as they are in capturing the most mesmerizing of street images. One such sidewalk snapper, or perhaps he might more accurately have been described as a country lane capturer - was the late Raymond Moore. During a splendid 1968 interview with Creative Camera the brilliant British photographer unfurled the following Wise Words Indeed…
“Light, from the gentle and persuasive to the harsh and strident, is the magical communicating agent, without it, all in life and the photographic print is black.” -Raymond Moore
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| Raymond Moore |
“Cartier-Bresson, Boubat, Eugene Smith among many others still seem to me to have used photography to create essentially photo-images, yet devoid of the gimmickry, technical and otherwise fashionable - this month’s model – approach. One feels a basic honesty and integrity that is missing from a great deal of today’s work.” - Raymond Moore
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| Raymond Moore |
“Technical matters are relatively unimportant. I use the camera I am happiest with, and that can produce the type of print I visualise; superb definition and ultra fine grain may be far less convincing than a grainy blur” - Raymond Moore
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| Raymond Moore |
“The meaning and message lie in the photographs, it’s a visual matter and it cannot be translated into words. To me, they sing and celebrate life, or should do, and life is the extension of the person taking them. It’s the photographer’s uninhibited reaction to the moment that counts, not premeditated images culled from the stale air of the past. One of the greatest dangers is self-conscious originality; to try and be original is a sure way of not being. An empty self, childlike and uninhibited, is far more likely to make a truly original statement.” - Raymond Moore
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| Raymond Moore |
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