Olivia Arthur on mistakes in photography:
For me, part of the power of still photography is the ambiguousness of pictures, the ability to give a hint about a scene or event without being too absolute. Photographers are always looking for ways to capture the atmosphere of an event without being too literal about it. In this situation, I was photographing in a small village in India which had had seen some caste violence. One of the women had been badly hurt, and she and her husband were going through a ritual exorcism to pray for her recovery and ward off any demons. They gave offerings to a god in a tree, and the woman went into a state of trance. Halfway through, I realised that my camera wasn’t winding properly, and when I processed the film I found that there were a lot of double and multiple exposures. In a strange way, despite being mistakes, those pictures actually do manage to capture the atmosphere of the place and scene better than the regular exposures, and it reminds me that the ambiguousness of photography is often stronger with a slight lack of clarity.
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I’m not unhappy about becoming old. I’m not unhappy about what must be. It makes me cry only when I see my friends go before me and life is emptied. I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I still fully expect to see my brother again. And it’s like a dream life. But, you know, there’s something I’m finding out as I’m aging that I am in love with the world.
And I look right now, as we speak together, out my window in my studio and I see my trees and my beautiful, beautiful maples that are hundreds of years old, they’re beautiful. And you see I can see how beautiful they are. I can take time to see how beautiful they are. It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music.
You know, I don’t think I’m rationalizing anything. I really don’t. This is all inevitable and I have no control over it. “Bumble-ardy” was a combination of the deepest pain and the wondrous feeling of coming into my own and it took a long time. It took a very long time, but it’s genuine. Unless I’m crazy. I could be crazy and you could be talking to a crazy person.
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—Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), from his interview on NPR’s Fresh Air
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