Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Can we see your photos? > From: george karvman <leicaphotogod@hotmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:08:25 -0400 > To: <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] photography today is GARBAGE > > All I look at and all I see today is these kids with their wizbangs who > don't understand CRAP about emulsions or how to mix up a batch of hypo and > all their photos are CRAP pictures of idiots on skateboards and young women > (??????) with metal things in their faces, this isn't photography, it's > GARBAGE. These people should be in JAIL. I have to ask: WHERE ARE THEIR > PARENTS? If my daughters had ever come home looking like that, my wife and > I > would have taken care of it QUICK. The great photographers, Seieglitz, > Eisendstaedt, Cartier-Bresson, Lewis Hine, Smith (who was GENE to me), > wouldn't tolerate this, so why are we? These people don't understand > anything about capturing the MOMENT, all they care about is where they're > going to get their next DRUG HIGH. EOS stands for BRAIN DEAD, and NIKON > stands for CRAP. The F was a good camera and then they were FINISHED. > > I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the camera i use, LEICA, > makes > me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I compose them in my > mind, and capture them on film, and then I develop this film and PRINT it > in > my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains have been destroyed by auto-idiot cameras > and they don't understand anything. Which is why their "photographs" are so > bad. The so called "digital" is not photography. PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE > CREATION > OF AN IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will last for another one-hundred > years, and if I am not around to use them, then my grandchildren will use > them and they will be just as capable as producing PHOTOGRAPHS then as they > are now. > > I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone to say this. > > George > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >