Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16
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on 15/2/00 4:28 pm, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:
> The bottom line is that the photo is the photo. Either it conveys the
> message, or it fails.
But what's the message? That sounds like PJ to me. A meditation is not a
message, nor is a conundrum, or a contradiction, and yet a photo can be all
three.
I've been trying to get away from messages in my own work...which is not the
same as getting away from meaning.
Eggleston's work in particular has meaning for me, but no distinguishable
message.
Robert Adams work is at its best when he's not 'on message' as we say in UK
politics. The Denver stuff for me sometimes tips over into rhetoric.
Bringing this back on topic, on the hasselblad site there's a picture of
Eggleston using a leica. How about that??
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John Brownlow
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