Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Reminds me of the quote that kicked off the entranceway to the Friedlander retrospective when it came through SF a while back: "I only wanted Uncle Vern standing by his new car (a Hudson) on a clear day. I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary's laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on a fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and seventy-eight trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It's a generous medium, photography." -- Friedlander. Our "seeing" really only involves paying attention to a very small number of elements in our field of view. In many (most? all?) cases, photographs show us what we didn't see while we were "seeing". Of course, sometimes that other stuff ruins the image, other times it makes it. -- Kevin ============= Only connect. ============= bamboozld at gmail.com shudaizi photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shudaizi/ On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:48 AM, H. Ball Arche wrote: > If my photographs only showed me I'd already seen - flat, without > the smell and the noise, and stripped of the sense of a rushing > moment in the time of their own making - I'd have quit in boredom a > long time ago. It's the wonder in a camera's capacity to catch > something I could never have seen in that moment, the discovery of > some chance combination of form and light, a lucky combination of > expression and gesture, that keeps me at it. My favorites of my own > photographs are ones I look at and think 'I don't remember it that > way at all'. > > And about Hockney, even though he got a lot of mileage with those > polaroid mosaics, that idea was developed and pursued to more > interesting ends by preceding photographers. The attitude he > expresses towards photo is the one that most painters of his > generation espoused, and should be written off as an arrogant > commonplace that workers in that medium always used to hold about > the other. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Steve Unsworth <lug at steveunsworth.co.uk> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 4:25:08 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] iso 100.000+?? > > "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