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Subject: [Leica] Re: photography today is GARBAGE
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:50:25 2005
References: <BEFAE509.26DE%bdcolen@comcast.net>

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...
>>
>>
>>
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