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July 30, 2009
Kiarostami: like tears in rain
Abbas Kiarostami reflects on rain and the digital image. "The idea for this series of "rain" pictures is one I had a long time ago. I had spent years looking through my car windscreen, admiring the rural landscape, admiring the raindrops and the effect of light on them. I tried taking photographs through the windscreen, but at that time I was using film, and I could hardly ever get the right light effect to make the pictures work.
It was only when digital cameras arrived that I thought: now I can go back to this idea. I could work with very little light, and while I was driving. I drove with one hand on the wheel, and used my other hand to take pictures. But maybe I shouldn't say that—I wouldn't want to promote bad driving. I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame. So I took my car windscreen as a frame, and I turned off the windscreen wipers so as not to wipe off the rain—I wanted the raindrops to remain on the glass. Everything we can see in the photographs—the yellow-brown, the green, the black—we owe to the light. It's the reflection of the light on the raindrops that gives the pictures these subtleties and nuances." {More from the Guardian at the link.]
Posted by Ray Pride at July 30, 2009 01:32 AM
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