Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Besides, "the great photographers" mentioned were themselves seen as de classe in their day. To be a photographer until the late 60's, or early 70's, didn't carry much social acceptance. Slobodan Dimitrov Studio G-8, AGCC http://sdimitrovphoto.com On Jul 13, 2005, at 12:34 PM, B. D. Colen wrote: > 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... >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >