deviantART

 
:icongonzale:

^Gonzale

loves to love and hates to hate
About Me Gallery Moderator Lurker Charlotte Gonzalez23/Female/France Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
Premium Member 'til Hell freezes over
Statistics 390 Deviations
15,703 Comments
324,389 Pageviews

Visitors

Some thoughts

Mon Jul 13, 2009, 2:28 PM
i was reading a book this evening ("Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde", de Georges Didi-Huberman, could be translated as "What we see, what is looking at us") coming back from my internship, and it made me think of photography
the book is saying, more or less (it's in french) that when we see something we have the feeling of having "won" it, that what we see adds up to our collection of "seen" things, but that at the same time the ephemeral nature of things make that we also have the feeling of losing everything we see. "When seeing is losing" he says.
So i thought that there are three distincts kinds of photography that i practice :
-The "i have this" kind of photographs, or the familiar photographs. what surrounds us. "i have this sister and this is how i will show her to you". "i have this room and this is how it looks like". These photos often look ordinary to those who have a similar universe or the same culture, and although there's less "risk" to take such photos, it is hard to make them interesting to the rest of the world.
-The "i don't have this" kind of photographs, or exotic photographs, or photographs that are dependent on what is happening around us and we don't have control. These are more trivial to take in the sense that we have to choose a point of view that is (on the exotic pictures case) either not condescending and judgemental or one that is purposely full of our character and opinions. On the ephemere events and things we can't control case, there's always this idea that we stopped a moment that will never exist again, and by taking a picture of it, we make it last longer than it shouldve, and very often we don't stop something that really represents what happened, but rather something that will be subconsciously representative of what we felt at that moment. Instictive photography is very personnal and at the same time extremely detached from our consciousness.
- The "i have this idea" kind of photographs. Photographs that rely on a pre-established concept and represent a thought rather than a feeling.

i think i take all three kinds and i understand now why i've always thought i didn't have any "style" in my photographs, but that's because they each represent a different process of thought or non-thoughts...

yeah. anyway :)

  • Mood: Content
  • Reading: Paul Auster and Didi-Huberman

deviantID

Hello ! My name's Charlotte Gonzalez and i'm a photography student in Paris. I'm also represented by the agency Prospekt. And for now i don't know what else to say so i'll leave it at that and edit it when i'm inspired :P

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Paris (been living in lebanon and bordeaux too.)
  • Interests: photography, drawing, cinema, painting, music, people and my cat.
  • Favourite movie: directors : Lynch, Solonz, Kubrick, Park Chan Wook, Wim Wenders, Fernando Meirelles
  • Favourite band or musician: Magma, The Books, Electrelane, Bptich control guys, Alice Russell, Boards of Canada...
  • Favourite genre of music: Post-rock, progressive, experimental, electronica, jazz.
  • Favourite poet or writer: Albert Camus, Dostoievski, Queffelec
  • Favourite photographer: Garry Winogrand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Martin Parr, HCB.
  • Skin of choice: a better one
  • Favourite game: poker
  • Personal Quote: "vos lois sont immorales et ma délinquance a des principes" Keny Arkana
  • Tools of the Trade: canon eos 20D, pentax me super, canon eos 5D, canonet QL17, leica m6.
http://www.gonzale.net/

Comments


bonjoir je'mappelle Ari:D Je suis etudiez francais:)

sorry still studying french:D

--
Xx.....::: PrincessAri :::.....xX
je suis etudiez le francais is grammatically wrong, the "ez" is for "you"(plural) and you should phrase it this way : j'étudie le français.... a lot simplier.

cheers :)
:P ohh but i guess i should write in english until i get used to writing in french eh:)?

--
Xx.....::: PrincessAri :::.....xX
Tu n'es pas exceptionnelle, tu est unique Charlotte.
!

je pensais que t'en fichais, de moi.
vraiment.
Pourquoi tu dis ça?
J'adore tes photos.

Vraiment!
je sais pas, tu es très silencieux :)
Je suis pas bavard; oui.
You have an amazing gallery!

--
:rose:, RACHAELs

:camera: "Life is like photography, you can use the negatives to develop"
mm ahoy thankyou
Beautiful work! Very expressive and insightful. :]

--
Acid House Blues.
your gallery is beautiful...so much meaning and life..experience behind it.

--
*so with this dazzle comes the dark, come will not one without the other; the rainbow as the brightest arc, comes not without the storm his brother*
Thank you so much for the favs and the devwatch!!

Your work is stunning!!
Beautifull gallery! congratz :)

--
:D Plz visit my gallery! [link] :D
Heya! Just logged in after neglecting this place for a month or two and realized you gave me a DD sometime ago. ^^; My (belated) gratitude, and congrats for the promotion! :ahoy:

--
blog
hey hey hey ! come back and post photos herrreeee !
cheers :)
I like your perception to things ,, I really love your style.

:rose:

--
[link]
Wow your work is seriously great! I wish to meet you one day!

--
Lets take some beautiful pixels!
Thanks for the favorites, I love your work!

Site Map