[Leica] The New Pictorialism

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Thanks, Bob, I wasn't aware of the Romantic Era heritage although I do
appreciate the association. For me it was the joy of seeing something,
imagining how it could be used, and then finding out I could make it
happen. Of course there's no escaping the images from the early 20th
century - they are an indelible part of western culture - but they are
deep in the background for me because I have so much missing in my own
artistic education. So I suppose i was, in some way, doing what you
suggest, although without knowing the elements to which I was
responding.

In another thread there was a conversation about one of the boons of
digital photography being experimentation. Certainly I found it easier
to experiment when, after I had made the shots, I could look through
the previews and see if I was close to what I had imagined. That's
important to me.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about the image. I appreciate it. As
I did all the others.

Adam


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:17:16 EST, Afterswift@aol.com <Afterswift@aol.com> 
wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 3/9/05 4:38:08 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:
> 
> > http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2005/03/08/_L3U0657.jpg
> >
> --------------------------------
> My goodness, Adam, are we back to the romantic era of at the turn of the 
> 20th
> century? The most unfilmlike days when photographers tried to imitate avant
> garde painting or pictorialism. But what I like in your image is the fact 
> that
> you didn't use PS to get the effect. You found it in the field -- in that
> lobby. So you were true to Leica tradition.
> 
> Bob
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