Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harvey: In 1968 I help hang a Uelsmann show at our school. Very impressive prints, especially since there was no Photoshop to help it along back then. At that time we had all the masters of the day showing thanks to our great teacher.. Still remember the glow from Minor White's gorgeous prints. Will get a chance to see some again tomorrow at the Aperture Show in St Pete. Walt Arche, Harvey wrote: >A couple of recent posts on this thread reminded me of when I took a Photo >1 class at U. Fla. in 1979. Of course there were like six sections, all >taught by grad students, but every term Jerry Uelsmann would descend from >Olympias, and give the collective throng a pep talk. According to the grad >students it was about the only teaching he did, aside from taking the new >grad students out to his own darkroom once a year to reveal the mysteries >of the inner sanctum. >There are two things I remember about his lecture. >He described what it was like to walk around with a camera. He said that >from where he was standing it was a fifty yard walk to his parked car, and >it might take him a minute and a half to get there. But if he were carrying >a camera, that same walk might take him an hour because he would be looking >at everything to see if he could find a photograph in it. >The other thing I remember was that his favorite adjective wasn't 'neat' or >'cool' - things were 'trippy'. > Arche > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >