Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Your comment implies that you take pictures which are art and that the millions of people who take pictures of "people and stuff" do not. While I agree that the vast majority of photographs taken by the general population are not "art" and weren't intended as "art," I respectfully disagree with this distinction. I have taken pictures which some people consider artistic in the least likely places; my kids' birthday parties, for instance. I think that the "happy-snaps" distinction is spurious and too often used with derogatory intent. Regards, Buzz > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Brick [SMTP:jim@brick.org] > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 12:27 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Happy-Snaps > > The connotation you hold in your mind is what you make of it. It is not > everyone else's view. I make fine art photographs and publish books which > are of my photography. These clearly are not "Happy-Snaps", But when I > carried my M6 to our Christmas party (last week), 35/1.4 ASPH, 800 film, > and took pictures of people and stuff... these are indeed "Happy-Snaps." > My > wife only takes "Happy-Snaps." As do millions of other people. So you can > hold a derogatory image of "Happy-Snaps" in your mind if you wish. I > don't. > And I will continue to use the term since, as coined by Ted, "Happy-Snaps" > means exactly what it says. > > Jim >