Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I downloaded a hi res image from this site and made a print of the shot of Mr Kobayashi. Looks great.Also did this with Lange Curtis and others. I found this sequence of the migrant mother shots very interesting... http://homepage.mac.com/leosarv/loc/PhotoAlbum112.html Leo On Mar 7, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Der Eiserne Reiter wrote: > I cann't keep quiet on this one. Above my monitor, at work, I have a > print of > AA (Rac Lake) and Stieglitz (A Ventian Canal) right next to each > other. To me, > this is more than a question of talent, IMHO. > > In my (engineering :-) mind a major part of art is using available > tools to develop > a language to communicate sometimes non-trivial issues of importance > to a receiver (and I consider myself on the receiving end ...). > > In the late 30s and early 40s, AA did exactly this, on the shoot and > in the > darkroom. At least with me, much of his work deeply resonates. With > respect to > tool usage, he did some good for Hasselblad. > > I doubt the above is true for the likes of Kincaid (who produces what > we call > in German "Kitsch"). What a marketing machine made out AA's work is a > different > story. If he made money out of it - good for him, I read that AA had a > hard > time financially in the beginning. > > Maybe this is trivia, but here is an example link to some non-calendar > Art work of AA: > > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html > > 2 more cents ... > > Roland. > > --- Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Isn't that a little harsh B.D.? AA's work may not be your cup of tea, >> but >> it's hardly crap. I myself may not be a huge Adams fan, but he was an >> extremely talented man. >> >> feli >> >> On Mar 7, 2005, at 9:07 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: >> >>> Well, first off - of course there were! >>> >>> Second, I, too, would like to have a body of work so universally >>> revered >>> - I would just hope that mine, like that of, say, W. Eugene Smith, >>> Robert Capa, Richard Avedon, or Henri Cartier-Bresson was worth being >>> revered. (And NO - I am not saying that I am worthy to have even >>> carried >>> their equipment. ;-) ) >>> The sad reality is that far, far, far more people revere the >>> paintings >>> of Keene, or of Kincaid, than have even HEARD of the photographers >>> I've >>> just mentioned. Universal veneration does not quality make.:-) >> ________________________________________________________ >> feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 >> www.elanphotos.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > ===== > FeRider (R.) > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >