Bildmoment

English translation: visual moment

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German term or phrase:Bildmoment
English translation:visual moment
Entered by: mill2

15:33 Apr 7, 2009
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
German term or phrase: Bildmoment
Context is an artist's description of how she takes photos, double-exposes them, and then paints on top of them.

Diese Entdeckung hatte mich dann dazu animiert, dass ich später ganz bewusst einen Film durchfotografierte, zurückspulte und zum zweiten Mal belichtete. Dabei habe ich ganz bestimmte *Bildmomente* ausgesucht, von denen eine Überlagerung für mich bedeutsam war. Diese Bilder waren dann die Grundlage für einen neuen Zyklus von Fotomalereien.

Does this just mean she chose particular things to photograph that seemed interesting to her? There are tons of hits for Bildmoment as well as for image moment, but they don't seem to necessarily be the same thing...
mill2
Local time: 18:05
visual moment
Explanation:
I think this refers to Henri Cartier Bresson's famous 'decisive moment' in photography. In his case, of course, it was a single exposure, and your artist is doing something a bit different, but the visual moment is significant for her as it was very famously for him. All students of photography will know of his work.

You might even want to translate 'bestimmt' with something approaching 'decisive'.

In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published his book Images à la sauvette, whose English edition was titled The Decisive Moment. It included a portfolio of 126 of his photos from the East and the West. The book's cover was drawn by Henri Matisse. For his 4,500-word philosophical preface, Cartier-Bresson took his keynote text from the 17th century Cardinal de Retz: "Il n'y a rien dans ce monde qui n'ait un moment decisif" ("There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment"). Cartier-Bresson applied this to his photographic style. He said: " "Photographier: c'est dans un même instant et en une fraction de seconde reconnaître un fait et l'organisation rigoureuse de formes perçues visuellement qui expriment et signifient ce fait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson#The_Decis...



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Of all the masters of the camera who passed away this year, none was as influential or renowned as Henri Cartier-Bresson, among the towering figures of 20th-century photography.

By 1932, at age 24, Cartier-Bresson had begun to devise a whole new manner of shooting pictures. He displayed an intuitive knack for choosing "the decisive moment," as it came to be called, that instant when a shutter click can suspend an event within the eye and heart of the beholder, an exhilarating confluence of observer and observed. His lyrical, loose, ingeniously composed images were a revelation. Previously, most photographers had used clunky, stationary cameras. They were like Romantic poets who looked back at time, recording the melancholy of a moment's having passed. H.C.B.'s images, many plucked from the everyday whirl of his beloved Paris, had the power and poetry of Zen and particle physics--smashing the atom of the present, bottling its spark, and generating flashes of life and light.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/friend.html

[Take a look at this article for the most famous of these decisive moments - beautiful!]


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Note added at 1 day5 hrs (2009-04-08 20:51:36 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, mill, for the points and the kind comments!
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:05
Grading comment
Thanks to all, especially Helen, thorough and helpful as always
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3visual moment
Helen Shiner
3 +1captured moments
Paul Kachur
3 +1picture/image element
casper (X)
3Photgraphic instances
Kphred
2photo(graphic) opportunity
Anne-Marie Grant (X)


  

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captured moments


Explanation:
might be a good option for this context

Paul Kachur
Germany
Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
6 hrs
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Photgraphic instances


Explanation:
I have selected specific photographic instances... or just photographic images(motifs, exposures...) since a photograph depicts the instant anyway.

Kphred
Local time: 11:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
picture/image element


Explanation:
The text talks of "Überlagerung", that is, superimposition of the "Bildelemente".


We need to organize picture elements within an individual picture and find a balance according to aesthetic principles...To save space, the picture elements can be partly superimposed on one another,but it is wise to...
http://tinyurl.com/cbkhpk



A color display including: a stacked plurality of color layers, each layer being selectively reflective or absorptive of light in a different portion of the human visible spectrum; wherein, the layers are each configured as a plurality of independently addressable picture elements, at least some of the picture elements in at least one of the layers are superimposed in the stack over at least some picture elements in at least one other of the layers, and a resolution of the superimposed picture elements in the at least one of the layers is different from the resolution of the superimposed picture elements in the at least one other of the layers.
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090027755



A method of photolithography in which optical radiation is directed onto the surface of a thin layer of a photoresist coated on a substrate in order to generate, after development, an image carried by the substrate, the image consisting of two superimposed image elements at least one of which consists of regularly repeating pattern elements, characterised by...
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0230728.html



Image elements are superimposed like transparent films in order to obtain particularly realistic images.
http://www.directype.org/glossary


casper (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 11

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lirka
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, lirka :-)
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photo(graphic) opportunity


Explanation:
This is the expression that came to my mind as I read the German. I am not sure whether it is appropriate here.

Anne-Marie Grant (X)
Local time: 17:05
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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visual moment


Explanation:
I think this refers to Henri Cartier Bresson's famous 'decisive moment' in photography. In his case, of course, it was a single exposure, and your artist is doing something a bit different, but the visual moment is significant for her as it was very famously for him. All students of photography will know of his work.

You might even want to translate 'bestimmt' with something approaching 'decisive'.

In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published his book Images à la sauvette, whose English edition was titled The Decisive Moment. It included a portfolio of 126 of his photos from the East and the West. The book's cover was drawn by Henri Matisse. For his 4,500-word philosophical preface, Cartier-Bresson took his keynote text from the 17th century Cardinal de Retz: "Il n'y a rien dans ce monde qui n'ait un moment decisif" ("There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment"). Cartier-Bresson applied this to his photographic style. He said: " "Photographier: c'est dans un même instant et en une fraction de seconde reconnaître un fait et l'organisation rigoureuse de formes perçues visuellement qui expriment et signifient ce fait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson#The_Decis...



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Note added at 1 hr (2009-04-07 16:52:59 GMT)
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Of all the masters of the camera who passed away this year, none was as influential or renowned as Henri Cartier-Bresson, among the towering figures of 20th-century photography.

By 1932, at age 24, Cartier-Bresson had begun to devise a whole new manner of shooting pictures. He displayed an intuitive knack for choosing "the decisive moment," as it came to be called, that instant when a shutter click can suspend an event within the eye and heart of the beholder, an exhilarating confluence of observer and observed. His lyrical, loose, ingeniously composed images were a revelation. Previously, most photographers had used clunky, stationary cameras. They were like Romantic poets who looked back at time, recording the melancholy of a moment's having passed. H.C.B.'s images, many plucked from the everyday whirl of his beloved Paris, had the power and poetry of Zen and particle physics--smashing the atom of the present, bottling its spark, and generating flashes of life and light.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/friend.html

[Take a look at this article for the most famous of these decisive moments - beautiful!]


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Note added at 1 day5 hrs (2009-04-08 20:51:36 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, mill, for the points and the kind comments!

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 43
Grading comment
Thanks to all, especially Helen, thorough and helpful as always

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paul Cohen: Cartier-Bresson was indeed the master of the decisive moment. But I'd be tempted to call it a decisive photographic moment. http://www.creativecaravan.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/01/23/t...
31 mins
  -> Yes, Paul, that would work too - I guess it'll depend on the context and the language the photographer in question uses. Thanks.

agree  Bernhard Sulzer: with visual moment - in the sense of visually significant/decisive moment as expressed by one particular (first) exposure/picture/frame/photo.
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Bernhard - for me it is exactly that.

agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
13 hrs
  -> Thanks, Harald
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