Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Blow-Up was written by Julio Cortazar in 1956. I haven't read it in about thirteen years so my recollection isn't good, but it resembled the movie only on barest plot points. Totally different feel to it. Anybody else out there find that reading the good stuff improves your photography? I think it has mine, perhaps more than looking at books by other photographers. > Dave Yoder wrote: > ><snip> > > Dave Yoder > > > > p.s. Though it was a great movie (and a better short-story, IMHO), I was > > appalled by the movie "Blow Up." Maybe what is now an unfortunate > > stereotype was a novel character role when it came out. Regardless, it > > feels like I've spent half my career overcoming that kind of image > > people expect from photographers. > > Adding to the fact that some photographers coming out of that generation > thought this was our role model... > Being a photographer a license to be an general creep. You've heard of > cool geeks? Well this was a cool creep. > But he was redeemed when he threw the mime back his invisible tennis > ball at 6 AM. > How close or better or different was the short story and what was it > called and who wrote it? > Mark Rabiner > Ä