Re: [Leica] Re: NG

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

My tastes run to photographers and photographs that tell us something,
and hopefully provoke us to do something - if nothing more than
seriously think - about the human condition...Lewis Hine...Salgado and
Nachtwey spring immediately to mind - as do the "Genes" - Smith and
Richards...Gordon Parks in his earlier incarnation...Some of Avdeon's
work, believe it or not, given the other names here..Danny
Lyons....Larry Towel....and on and on...The bottom line, I suppose, is
that the use of the camera to "capture" beautiful static objects doesn't
much for me. I can certainly admire a given photographer's skills, eye,
etc., and ability to see and convey beauty where some of us might fail
to see it, and certainly couldn't convey it as well. But that's not
something that I want to put my energy and creativity into attempting to
do.

B. D.

Pablo Kolodny wrote:
> 
> on 26/7/01 10:36 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > Agreed....And I know that most members of the list would disagree with
> > my "quite banal" comment, and would probably say the same about much of
> > the photography I admire. To my way of thinking, however, the NG is,
> > with some major exceptions, a collection of beautiful postcards. But to
> > each his own.
> >
> > As to the discussion you were trying to provoke, my point is that
> > there's no question what rangefinder pros are overwhelmingly shooting
> > with if they use 35 rangefinders. But if you plug in the names Nikon and
> > Canon, you'll discover that the VAST majority of NG photos are shot with
> > those two brands. Which doesn't in any way address the question of what
> > is "the best" camera - just points out that, unfortunately, even at NG
> > Leica is an afterthought these days.
> >
> > B. D.
> 
> Quite interesting that point about "postcards"...I've always thought the
> same about the last, let's say, 10 years of NG editions.
> By now, looking back about 30 years or more we could not say the same on
> that.
> On the other side, what's the photography you admire, B.D.?
> 
> Bye
> 
> Pablo