维塔斯▪卢克斯日记摘要Abstract from Vitas Luckus diary
甜蜜心情Sweet mood
甜蜜的心情是一种对于在市场上销售的油布明信片的市侩美学的讽刺风格。Sweet mood is an ironic stylization of the philistine aethetics of oilcloth postcards sold at the market.
我们应该反对人们总是希望照片里的自己看起来美丽而且被神秘的薄雾笼罩吗？中间调能够营造亲切感。我们已经习惯于在建房时构造豪华的门面，隐藏留在背后的砖石。实验摄影也是一种有着巨大潜力的艺术。通过将一个黑白照片转换为彩色照片，或通过使用中途曝光的手法来突出图像轮廓，我们可以赋予一个作品的以新的内涵。摄影师对自己的能力必须非常清楚，并知道在摄影行业中过度的功利心或虚荣心只能阻碍他的工作成果。我想很多生活中的问题，甚至战争，都来自于最好这个概念的无边欲望。Should we deplore the fact that people want to see themselves in a photograph looking beautiful and enveloped in an enigmatic mist? Half-tones create intimacy. We have grown used to building houses with lavish facades, leaving the stonework of the bricks hidden behind them. Laboratory photography is also an art with colossal potential. By turning a black-and-white photograph into a color one, or by highlighting the contours of an image with the help of solarisation, we can give a work a new meaning. The photographer must have a very clear idea of his possibilities, and remember that trying to stand out only stops him from doing his job properly. I think many of the problems in life, even wars, come from the boundless desire to be the best.
维塔斯▪卢克斯日记摘要Abstract from Vitas Luckus diary
哑剧Pantomime
从一个中世纪的缩影，一幅丢勒的解剖图，或着是一张活细胞的科学照片中，我们都看到了人类。但是技能和知识是看不见的。技术是工艺，而专业文化是一个人在一定年龄生活和思考的能力。在“哑剧”中我一直在寻找可以被拍照的形式，而不是可以绘画的形式。我的生活是一场哑剧。这个哑剧里面没有演员，没有导演，没有布景设计师和摄影师。我们都是平等的，每个人都以自己的方式演绎了他的一部分。在这些照片中没有真正的人。他们甚至含有博世的愿景，有着像防毒面具一样的残忍的面具。这些是概念和范畴。我们必须在所有领域测试自己。例如，如果大幅面光学装置终被发明，我们还必须发明使用它们的方法。它扭曲了很多更严格的种类。在游戏中，一切都是合适的。In a medieval miniature, an anatomical drawing by Dürer, or a scientific photograph of a living cell we see the Human being. Skill and knowledge are invisible. Technology is craft, and professional culture is the ability to live and think in one‘s age. In „Mimes“ I was looking for form that could be photographed rather than drawn. I was living in pantomime. There were no actors, no director, set designer or photographer. We were equal, and everyone played his part in his own way. There are no real people in these photographs. They even contain Bosch‘s visions, inhuman masks that somewhat resemble gas masks. These are concepts and categories. One must test oneself in all domains. For instance, if large-format optics is invented, one also must invent a way of using them. It distorts a lot in a stricter genre. In a game, everything is appropriate.
维塔斯▪卢克斯日记摘要Abstract from Vitas Luckus diary
即兴哑剧Improvising pantomime
[...]但在当时，我更关心的事情是搞清楚什么是绝对的。是否有可能从海边拖走所有的沙子？在我们当中潜伏着的抽象...这是什么？就像一个无法测量，无限深的星系，莫扎特神圣的音乐表现，它比最真实的现实更重要。[...] But at the time, I was much more concerned about working out what the absolute was. Is it possible to haul away all the sand from the seaside? And the abstraction that is lurking within us... What is it? Like a galaxy that has no measure, infinitely deep, a manifestation of a divine Mozart, it is more important than the most real reality.
维塔斯▪卢克斯日记摘要Abstract from Vitas Luckus diary
肖像特写Close-up portrait
不顾一切的色调的可能性，摄影的力量在于它“身份证照片”一样的品质。在一个简单的照片中，我们的眼睛，鼻子和耳朵都是有象征性的和动人的。人们不假思索地把对方的照片作为纪念品，并当场解决所有的取景和构图的问题。他们不会被照片中人的头顶在整个照片中缺失而感到烦扰：每个人都知道这个人是什么样子的。这个似乎像文盲一样的照片构成是自然形成的，理解它的观众无处不在，它在某种层面上克服了历史和国家标准的观念。Regardless of all the tonal possibilities, the power of photography lies in its „ID photo“ quality. In a simple photograph, our eyes, nose and ears are symbolic and eloquent. People unthinkingly take photographs of each other as mementoes, and solve all the framing and composition problems on the spot. They are not bothered by the fact that the top of the head of the person portrayed is missing from the picture: everyone knows what it looks like. This seemingly illiterate composition is natural, and it finds an understanding viewer everywhere, overcoming the historical and national standards of perception.
维塔斯▪卢克斯日记摘要Abstract from Vitas Luckus diary
白色背景On a white background
业余摄影能够很容易的融入进生活中去，它本身就是一个平凡的行为。对我来说，用随机的人造偏光板来拍摄和获得惊人的机会看到埃及金字塔在建造中的照片是一样的有趣。业余摄影是永恒的。这表明了即使在这个电子时代中人们的爱恨情仇和过去相比也是一样的。摄影艺术是成千上万人的智慧结晶。而专业人士的任务是创作一种对于人们拍照取材的选择的概括。Amateur photography enters life immediately, and it is itself a mundane act. For me, a random polaroid shot is just as interesting as the increadible opportunity to see the construction of egyptian pyramid in a photograph. Amateur photography is eternal. It shows that in electronic age people love and feel pain and hatred just as they did in the past. The art of photography has taken hold of the minds of millions. The professional‘s task is to produce a generalisation of what people take pictures of.
维塔斯▪卢克斯日记摘要Abstract from Vitas Luckus diary