The Problem with Moments65
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
—Vincent van Gogh
They say photography is the art of moments—whether Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moments,” when all elements serendipitously converge into some harmonious composition; the camera’s shutter blinking for a fraction of a second; the attention span of the average internet viewer; or the time it takes the human brain to recognize and classify an image (13 milliseconds, according to a recent study).
Among the most revealing books I have read in recent years is Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who uses the term to describe what he calls an “optimal ...
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