"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."

“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”                                 

                                                      ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

 Jump to 25:16 for Michael Goodlet's thoughts on this...

 

"When we come at an art from that [technical] perspective, it's very easy to get sucked into this vortex where we think that everything has an answer - and everything has a technical answer - where in fact, with photography, a lot of that answer is in how we are and what we feel. 

"And when we look at a photograph, at least 50% of it, probably more, is us. When we look at it, we are seeing what we feel, not what the photographer took. He just gave us that foundation, and then we applied all the feeling, all the emotion, we dragged it up out of our past and applied it to that image. And that is such an important factor in how we take our photography forward. It cannot, and it never should be, all about technical pursuits. They're merely the starting place for great photography."

    ~ Michael Goodlet