Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/08

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Subject: Re: Message VS Medium--It Ain't the Camera
From: doctorc8@stout.entertain.com (Henry Chu)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:43:03 -0600

>
>Sorry folks, it ain't the camera, its the photographer.
>
>Don't confuse the MEDIUM of photography with the MESSAGE of the IMAGE.
>
>If a photog has to explain why one image is better than another, they
>are wasting their time.  An image should stand by itself.  IF one is
>better than another, the image should tell you, NOT the photog.
>
>There would be a lot more great photographers, and a lot less camera
>manufacturers, if photographers spent their money on classes/film/paper
>and learned how to be photographers instead of spending their money on
>new equipment.
>
>Stephen Gandy

Steve,

What you say is true.  However, for many the pleasure is not the creation
of the image but the consumption of the "toys'.  I find myself in both
aspects-- creation and consumption.  I love making photographs, good or
bad, and I love buying equipment.

Henry