Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)

AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)”:

How is this continuum of photographer, world, and camera achieved? Each person must find it individually, but for me it has flowed from the realization that I don’t take pictures, pictures take me. I can do nothing except have film in the camera and be alert. My adversary, a photograph, stalks the world like a roaring lion. Pictures happen. One can only trust one’s sensitivity, the bounty of the world, and the chemistry of Kodak. This is the photographic method.