Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/14
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Holy Mackeral! I'm not good enough to post to this group and I've
thrown away better work than presented here!
Jack C. Herron
8118 E. 20th St.
Tucson, AZ 85710
520 885-6933
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruben" <ruben@rhodos.dk>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography!
> This "trendy" way of shooting casually - boring and everyday uninteresting
> images with not much artistic contents has been sweeping over Europe for
> many years now followed be a crowd of pleasers telling everbody this is
the
> new art photography - museum collections buy it and photographers do what
> could be branded as classic photography style are rediculed for their
work.
> I dont really care who Leica gives the Barnack Award - but this is a low!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics" <saganicc@mskcc.org>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 6:35 PM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography!
>
>
> > I didn't recognize the place and I go there regularly. He does capture
a
> certain quality which reflects an off season feel, or mid-week early
> afternoon feel. On weekends the place is a circus.
> >
> > Chris Saganich
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Leonard
> J Kapner
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:28 PM
> > To: 'Leica Users Group'
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography!
> >
> > Slobodan,
> >
> > I don't know what "bubble gum" photography is, but I find this series of
> > images for the most part rather contrived, dull and uninteresting - a
pale
> > imitative reflection of the Arbus photo-documentary approach to subject
> > matter.
> >
> > But, maybe that's how Coney Island comes across to the European
> observer...
> >
> > Len
> >
> > --
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org
> > [mailto:lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Slobodan
> > Dimitrov
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:03 AM
> > To: lug@leica-users.org
> > Subject: [Leica] The Barnack Award, or bubble gum photography!
> >
> > I decided to enter this year's Oskar Barnack Award 2004 competition. I
> > figured what did I have to lose but a little bit of mail cost. It's been
> an
> > interesting experience, in that it's like throwing something into a big
> > black pit and not hearing when it lands.
> > They finally posted the results on the Leica website, and I have to
admit
> I
> > wasn't disappointed. Most of their past selections have shown a
> predilection
> > toward a particular style, or mannerism, that is essentially European in
> > execution.
> >
> > http://www.leica-camera.com/kultur/events/wettbewerbe/obp/index_e.html
> >
> > I kept mulling of what it reminded me of, when it dawned on me where
I've
> > seen the like of it before. In this case, more like where I've heard it
> > before, as the term bubble gum popped into my brain.
> > I guess that this is their way of going after the youth market, by
> selecting
> > what is essentially 70's retro imagery. In other words bubble gum
> > photography.
> > S. Dimitrov
> >
> >
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