Re: [Leica] Musings on the role of photography and a question about what you shoot and why

[Carl Socolow <csocolow@microserve.net>]

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Khoffberg wrote:
SNIP
> 
> All of this leads me to a question.  When you grab your Leica (or whatever)
> and go out to take pictures for yourself, do you go in search of beauty or
> with the purpose of telling a story, righting a wrong, illuminating the
> absurdity of the human condition, or something else entirely?  Does an M
> camera lead you in one direction and medium or large format another?  It
> seems like an RNGF camera lends itself especially to art for life's sake but
> hardly exclusively.
> 
> For whatever it's worth, I find shooting pastoral landscapes increasingly
> unsatisfying.  I'm much more interested in finding/telling a story.  For
> example, I've come to enjoy prowling around on construction sites on
> weekends when nobody is there.  Why was the gear left where it was?  What
> were they doing with it?  What stories do the tractors have to tell?  How
> does that bucket feel about being filled with tar all day every day?
> 
> Happy new year.
> 
> Kevin Hoffberg

As Keats said: "Truth is beauty, beauty is truth. That's all you know
and all you need to know."

They aren't mutually exclusive.

Carl Socolow

p.s. Happy New Year to all members of the LUG who have entertained and
enriched me this past year.
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