Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote: > George, > > You have put really interesting questions, maybe would be very long > to comment; probably the pictures are a projection of our own > sensibility, it seems to me that I want to show something that is > disapearing ... or is for ever, a human side and a reflection about > different things, always a research for the inside beauty. Maybe > photography is becoming for me an exercise as it was for Marcel > Proust "La recherche du temps perdu" (I don't know in English, sorrry. maybe something like "sentimental remembrances of the past ..." very loosely, with my interpolation... I thing you are right Lluis...your images capture and document a fleeting essence of a slowly disappearing way of life... > > > I can't continue, I should go to sleep... et des bons reves... Steve > > > All the best! > Lluis > > > El 16/09/2008, a las 18:05, Lottermoser George escribi?: > >> An interesting and tough comment. >> >> great questions: >> "what are you trying to say?" >> I wonder if attempting to verbalize what a photographer or an image >> "is trying to say" diminishes the visual message. >> "is the subject strong?" >> visually? >> conceptually? >> historically? >> politically? >> socially? >> stylistically? >> ? >> >> Great photographs fall into so many different genres, use so many >> different styles, methods, levels of craft and art ? yet, all great >> ones present a confluence of design elements, content, subject, >> light, sense of moment and personal point of view ? so as to >> produce some kind of magical visual message ? in a manner quite >> different from paintings, drawings or other visual mediums. >> Photographs seem to hang between representational paintings >> (drawings) and poetry. YMMV >> >> I agree that the white wall element on the left pulls the eye away. >> And that good photographs [do reach] for more than [mere] >> representation. >> >> Fond regards, >> George >> >> george@imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:06 AM, Alastair Firkin wrote: >> >>> For me this ticks the boxes: what are you trying to say/show, is >>> the subject strong, is the composition good, are there >>> distractions (here the white wall back left is pulling my eye from >>> the action and would be cropped). Good images should be more than >>> representations although the latter also has a role in history. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Alatair >>> >>> --- luisripoll@telefonica.net wrote: >>> >>> From: Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net> >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Subject: [Leica] Looking at pictures >>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:23:43 +0200 >>> >>> With IIIF, Elmar 4/90, TX >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/08070407.jpg.html >>> >>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are always appreciated, >>> >>> Saludos cordiales >>> Lluis >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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