Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hockney did at least one too many swimming pools. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:48 PM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche at yahoo.com> 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 >