Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Too true. I set out at 5pm this evening for a hilltop overlook of Kabul lit by the setting sun. By the time we got there, it was dark. The waste of my time was inconsequential. The time of my driver and security man was not inconsequential; they could have been home with their families. My heart didn't feel so good. Wendy On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Chris Saganich <chs2018 at med.cornell.edu>wrote: > Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips > over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time > enough to expose our hearts. > -Minor White > > > > > > At 11:44 AM 10/23/2009, you wrote: > >> ..Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary >> recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there >> was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment >> and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very >> philosophical. - Joel Meyerowitz >> >> All photography is propaganda. - Martin Parr >> >> Photography is universal language; it doesn't need translation. Its >> collective memory is a mirror in which our society continually >> observes itself... - Sebastiao Salgado >> >> Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let colour >> destroy this image. - Patrick Summerfield >> >> Documentary photography is the presentation or representation of >> actual fact in a way that makes it credible and vivid to an audience >> at the time. - David Hurn >> >> For me photography is a form of prayer. - Don Doll >> >> Great photography is always on the edge of failure. - Garry Winogrand >> >> Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. - Garry Winogrand >> >> the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality >> (whatever that is) on film... if, later, the reality means something >> to someone else, so much the better. - Garry Winogrand >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:25 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote: >> >> "It's a one eyed man looking through a hole" David Hockney >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> >>> On 22/10/09 22:04, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> "Photography is a higher form of pointing" - Johnny Deadman >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >