Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: photography today is GARBAGE
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Jul 13 12:35:41 2005

As a daily LUG reader since the late 1990s, it all sounds pretty familiar to
me. ;-)


On 7/13/05 3:29 PM, "F?lix L?pez de Maturana" <FELIXMATURANA@telefonica.net>
wrote:

>> 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
> 
> 
> Dogmatism, intolerance or a photographic taliban?
> 
> Felix
> "El que calla, otorga...
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Re: photography today is GARBAGE)
In reply to: Message from FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana) ([Leica] Re: photography today is GARBAGE)