Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No - what I mean is try to take the kind of Egglestonesque, beauty-in-the-mundane, bleak, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, stuff which is the antithesis of what many of us try to achieve with our photography but which seems to be considered so wonderful these days. The general suspicion is that it would be easy to do. I'm not so sure, but let's see if it is. P. ******* Paul Hardy Carter www.paulhardycarter.com +44 (0)20 7871 7553 ******* On 7 Apr 2006, at 18:53, Barney Quinn wrote: > > > Do I get this right? We are all going to go out and shoot. When we get > back > we are going to throw out the keepers, keep the outtakes, and call it > art? > Or am I missing something? > > Barney > > > > > PHC wrote: > >> Why don't you try it Kyle? Take an afternoon to go around and take the >> pictures you'd normally edit out before even pressing the shutter, or >> lifting your camera. Actually, that sounds like fun. I might try it >> too! >> >> It might have a liberating effect. I challenge you! >> >> P. ******* Paul Hardy Carter www.paulhardycarter.com +44 (0)20 7871 7553 ******* >> >> On 7 Apr 2006, at 18:32, Kyle Cassidy wrote: >> >>> https://access.asc.upenn.edu/ >>> PhotographyFrameset.htm,DanaInfo=www.kellymcerl >>> ean.com+ >>> >>> these are exactly the sort of photos that leave me banging my head >>> wondering >>> how i could have gotten so removed from art so as not to get it. i >>> flip >>> through book after book, stare at egglestons, and i just can't figure >>> it >>> out. all the serious galleries seem to be hanging photographs that >>> co-opt >>> many of the things that i've tried to purge from my own work -- >>> stark, >>> lonely snapshots that i wouldn't give a second look to were they in a >>> pile >>> of discards outside the wallmart, seemingly random images taken by >>> seemingly >>> random people. obviously kelly knows what he's doing, he has a boat >>> load of >>> awards and his presentation is lovely -- but i'm lost, out of touch, >>> and i >>> don't even have an idea where to turn to figure it out. i suddenly >>> feel ... >>> very old. >>> >>> and i wonder if some magazine editor said "we'd like you to do a >>> bunch >>> of >>> photos in the style of these" -- i don't know if i could. maybe >>> that's >>> the >>> secret i'm missing ... maybe that's it. >>> >>> >>> -- confused in america >>> >>> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/m7/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > -- > Barney Quinn, Jr. > (301) 688-1982 (O) > (240) 535-3036 (C) > (877) 220-0981 (P) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >