Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, Hey, I like that. All those old, bad shots that I trashed - I should have saved and sold as "art". Maybe I got out of the business too soon! BTW ............... don't get too far from that Scotch ........... we are all going to need it soon. To keep this on subject (kinda, maybe) and in reverence to the above and below, I would urge all readers of this post to find a copy of the latest Photo Techniques magazine. (February 1998) Check out David Vestal's column "The High Art of Transcendentalizing". I have been a fan of his through a number of magazines and he is a Leica shooter of many years. (There, how is that for going back on topic)? Vestal has been editing a manuscript written by the late Ralph Steiner and this column is but one chapter of what I hope will become a published book. Years ago I took a workshop from Minor White. I went away from that experience shaking my head and having absolutely no idea what the man was telling me. For years I have thought that I was just too young to understand the "master" and that I would grow with time. I never did grow to understand Minor but I was vindicated somewhat when I read a quote in this column from Paul Caponigro, another accomplished man with a camera and a friend of Minor's. "Head for the nebulae, Minor, they can't corner you there." Somehow, I think Ralph Steiner would approve of "Artsy-Fartsy". It puts it all in the right perspective. Cheers, David Medley Whidbey Is. WA USA dmedley@whidbey.net - ---------- > From: ted grant <75501.3002@compuserve.com> > To: INTERNET:leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Multiple Exposures w/ M6 & M3 > Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 12:00 PM > > <<<I think I understand "artsy" ................ > > What the hell does "fartsy" look like and is it anything like "Bokeh"? > > > David, > > Merely a phrase from the weird world of "strange art" generally created by > using an M camera on lomg exposures and swing the camera back and forth > during the exposure! :) > > ted