Re: [Leica] art, manual focus & other misunderstanding

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Eric-
I would differ in one small way with you in the 'art', 'not-art' discussion.
Sure, photography by it's very nature is a representational mode of
expression, but it is a medium. Just as the ground earth colors and oil of
Michealangelo, the stone and bronze of Rodin ( where they thinking of him
when they named 'Rodinal'?) are media, the gelatin sludge with silver in it
on a support is a medium- probably with more limitations than most, and that
is the challenge to the photographer, to make an expression that is emotive
and possibly unique.
Dan

- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] art, manual focus & other misunderstanding


>At 12:13 PM 5/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>At best,
>>the efforts would be shot down with a, "Here's another Doisneau copycat.
>>Can't he do anything original?".
>
>You have a very good point there. And yes, I think his pictures are very
>attractive. They make great posters for teenagers' walls. I think that that
>kind of photography is fine, for those who like it. I find it not true to
>the real essence of the nature of photography. Capturing life as the camera
>sees it. Not as someone constructs "idealistic" images. But that's just me.
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
>Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.