Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike wrote: Worst by far are god-d**ned flower shots, which I virtually cannot discuss without profanity. If *EVERY* photograph of a flower disappeared off the earth in the flash of some benevolent genie's magic wand, it would not affect authentic human culture on earth one whit. I hate flower photographs with a fine violence and great phlegm. I wish I could innoculate myself against ever having to look at another. Actually, Arnold Crane (whose book _The Other Side of the Lens_ ,mentioned here recently, I edited), showed me one of the few good flower shots I have ever seen. Flower photographs may not be precisely the the most numerous kind of photograph, but GOOD flower photographs are definitely the rarest kind of photographs on earth; not one in ten million qualifies. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike, Imogen Cunningham's flower shots are really powerful. Robert Maplethorpe (sp?) also has some great sexually charged orchid shots (dripping dew etc.). There is a story that a magazine editor, when using some of the orchid pixs for a story said: "Boy, I want a date with that orchid." Jonathan Lee Still waiting for his ebay IIIa and Summar