Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]----- Original Message ----- From: "Ric Carter" <ricc@mindspring.com> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:34 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: B.D. PAWS (Ted Grant) >I don't want to awaken a sleeping dragon here, but... > > I don't understand how a "drunken unfortunate lying in the gutter" is > any different from the subject of any other still life posted here. > > Visually speaking: > Poorly done is just poorly done. > Artfully done, it might well better the many "family member across the > dinner table" snap shots we so often post here. > > > Socially speaking: > "No bums?" > Are we denying the wino or bum the ability to make his own decisions > and his own humanity, or are we merely sweeping aside a group of people > we are not comfortable seeing? > Do we see ourselves as taking advantage of subjects incapable of > defending themselves? Personal preferences and taste aside, I fail to > see the essential photo subject difference between a sleeping infant > and a bum in the gutter. At times they match each other even in odor. > > Forthwith: > Week 15 > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/PAW-2005/Week_15 > > I don't know if he is drunk and homeless passed out or a student > napping before his bus to his next class. > > Maybe you can tell me. > > Ric Carter > > > > > > > > On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:35 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > >> B. D. Colen showed: >> Subject: RE: [Leica] B.D. PAWS >> >> >>> Thanks so much...I realize I'm violating the Kyle Cassidy "no bums" >>> rule >>> - which I enforce in my class!:-) - but rules are made to be broken... >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/ALDO >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/FU<<<<<<<<< >> >> Hi B.D., >> Works for me as a caught moment in the life of a street dweller. And >> that's >> in both pictures, last year and this year. Both unique captured >> moments. >> >> As far as violating the code of "no bums?" Like any rule, they are >> made for >> modification under certain conditions, which in this case is OK.. At >> least >> he appears alive and not a drunken unfortunate lying in the gutter >> with an >> empty bottle. :-( >> >> Now those type of pictures are off limits, as it's like shooting fish >> in a >> barrel and points out the photographer has no real talent other than >> shooting unconscious humans. >> >> ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information