Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] art, manual focus & other misunderstanding
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 06:37:03 -0400
 
OK, here we seem to agree.  My personal preferences are for Doisneau's work
of Duane Michal's, but that is irrelevent to this discussion. 

Dan C.

 At 01:18 AM 06-05-99 -0500, you wrote:
>At 10:48 PM 5/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Well, in your other posting you state that photojournalism is photography's
>>highest standard (my wording
>
>Well, that would be your wording. I didn't say that. What I said was that 
>photojournalism's goal, to show what's in front of the camera (and hoping 
>all along that the camera is pointed to significant moments in life) that 
>it utilizes the strength of photography, as opposed to other styles of 
>photography, which are equally valid. But, for example, the work of Duane 
>Michals doesn't use the representational strengths of photography, but 
>departs from it. Perfectly valid. I like his work a lot. But he has a lot 
>more in common with abstract painting than photojournalism does.
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