Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 5/25/01 10:36 PM, Donna-Lee Phillips at dlp@pacific.net wrote: > Mark-- > >> Donna everyone including myself are takin by your breezy writing style but >> I'm going to make an "emperor with new clothes" point because in your long >> post there is not one single point you made which i happen agree with. >> > My opinions are clearly marked, always, as "opinions" not facts, so that you > don't agree with a single point I made means only that we are very different > people. Understood by everyone on this list, DL. And for your truly inspired message header, thanks. Every message to the LUG has the invisible words at the beginning 'in my opinion...'. >> And a causal look at the body of great photography will find half of it of >> people unaware they are being photographed. Unposed. To find this an invasion >> of their private space is just plain weird is my strong > opinion. >> > ... until I realized that you meant "casual", not "causal". In order to see if > half of the corpus is of unposed people, we'd first have to define what "great > photography" is. That's a really long talk. Interesting point. Seriously, I (personally) find it hard to imagine a definition which didn't meet Mark's criterion. I mean, even discarding the idea of a photographic canon, the verite/documentary side of photography has been its most consistent inspiration. I just find it hard to imagine that landscape, still life, portraiture and consensual documentary are going to be more than 50% of anyone's greatest hits. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com