Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/01

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Subject: [Leica] Salgado now great image/camera ?
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto at earthlink.net)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:11:48 -0400

Steve Barbour wrote:

>
> ... the question hinges on the meaning of  "truly great photo"  ...
>
> by that I mean "undeniably truly great"....    of course, based on  
> content, the magic moment, the significance...
>

And who is determining 'greatness'.  IMHO 'greatness' is sufficiently
subjective that a universal definition is very elusive at best.  Is
'Moonrise' great?  Is a photo of the PM sliding down a bannister great?  Is
a photo of a naked girl running from a napalm attack great?  Is McCurry's
photo of an afghan girl great?  If I had to choose between these and my
family snapshots I know what choice I'd make.

> What is limiting? Is it our cameras, or is it our brains and eyes?

Or how we interact with our tools and subjects?

Doug Herr
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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