Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The oppressed work is now being done by the runner's up. S. Dimitrov > From: Tim Atherton <timatherton@theedge.ca> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:40:53 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography! > > > Actually I rather liked them. I'm glad the Barnack awards have moved away > from much of the clich?d B&W documentary photography which it seemed stuck > in a few years ago - same old dreary work showing "oppressed" or > disadvantaged people etc etc > > (and I'm not sure what an "Arbus photo-documentary approach to subject" is > apart from an appeal to a constantly backwards looking approach to > photogrpahic clich?s that seems to dog so much current photography?) > > And it's colour, which is always a good thing. > > As to the subject matter - sometimes it takes an outsider to see how our > world actually looks. My experience travelling around N America is that - > oh, I don't know - 85% of the inhabited/occupied space is pretty darned > ugly/mundane/dreary/dirty etc - yet most people have become blind and > immune > to it. So people just don't see it - yet within those spaces there are many > visually interesting and intriguing things. It seems that about 95% of the > photography seems to concentrate on that remaining 15% of the space - at > it's worst it's the picture postcard snapshots - at it's best, it's mostly > what 100 other photographers are also trying to photograph "meaningfully". > > Mind you, what won the award here isn't really some of the best that I've > seen - but it's rather better most > > tim > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information