Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scott- I am not anticipating my death- I hope to be around long enough at least to use the DMR I have on order! And- it is a depressing (sic?) subject. ps- going to another memorial Thurs pm. Stasys On Jul 11, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Scott McLoughlin wrote: >> >> >>> I am hoping to stimulate a bit more discussion on this topic: why do >>> you take the images, what do you do with them, how big do you print, >>> how do you print, why do you print etc >> > > I hope to produce a body of work that my family and kin and friends > can look > at once I'm dead, or at least, once many of the subjects of my > pictures are dead. > > Lately, I'm printing more and shooting less. I figure that once I'm > dead, some boxes > of prints will be more accessible than some hard drives. > > It's funny to look at pictures of dead people that mean something to > you. Sometimes > a beautiful picture grabs you. Other times something prosaic can bring > you to tears - > a prom picture, or a shot from summer camp, or the pictures on your > mother's > bedroom walls when she was a teenager. > > Sometimes what's more remarkable is to think of who took *that* > picture. > My grandfather (still living) had a real eye and knack with a brownie > camera > in his day, and I've often been startled by his compositions. > > When someone dies, alot of things get lost or thrown away. Closets of > clothes, > boxes of old jewelry, dog eared paper backs, keep sakes that will mean > little > to anyone but the deceased. > > But pictures get thumbed through and passed around and circulated. I've > seen tin types (sp?) of my great grandmother, along with her diary > which > is mostly records of her meagre finances as she kept house for some > better off relatives as a young girl. > > Photography is my hobby. I enjoy the process and the gear. Futzing with > an image is a joy in its own right. But I have to say that for me, > the result, > the product or print, has alot to do with our mortality, the > anticipation of > death, and sparking the memory of those still living. > > Scott > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >