Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bruce Feldman wrote: > Here's a quote I have in my notebook, by photographer Michael Kenna on > technological advances in photography, copied from a magazine interview: > > "There will always be technological advances -- every day there's something > new. However, as the world around me accelerates, my tendency is to slow > down and look for "center." > To me this says it all about the value of the Leica "M" and just a couple of > lenses and B&W film. A take-off on a quote by novelist David Lodge, also from > my notebook: > > "Most people in photography are perfectionists. They may be shooting crap, > printing crap, exhibiting crap, but they try and make it *perfect* crap." > > Bruce Feldman > Warsaw, Poland I agree with you and the sentiments entirely; but for the record Kenna is a Hasselblad man (& possibly view camera too) but I guess that is determined by the subjects that engage his interest - a pictorialist ? a "new topographer" ? I dunno, but his work really gets me going. Peterg "...just an angle on a curve"