Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:07 AM, K Landdeck wrote: > 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. brilliant, and true... Steve > > > -- 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information