Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Because if you make it big enough, it is ART regardless of the intrinsic quality of the image. I have seen out-of-focus shots of puke on the ground in serious galleries, blown up to 1x2 meters or so. The hack was called Cindy Sherman. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > Those are fantastic. I'm at the other end of the extreme and want people > to > hold my 8x10 prints in their hands to look at the people and feel a > connection that comes through getting close to the photo. I totally > understand that landscape photos are best viewed at a distance, but > continue > to feel that connections between people should be close. I never have > understood those huge larger-than-life enlargements that some photographers > do with portraits. > > Tina > > > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Gary Todoroff < > datamaster at northcoastphotos.com> wrote: > >> Great web-site, Jim! It inspired me to post a couple of my largest >> photographs on display, one of them at 10x15 feet is from only half the >> frame of a Leica 35mm Velvia transparency: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Gary+Todoroff/General/HealthSportWallMural.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Gary+Todoroff/General/HolidDayInnMural.jpg.html >> Gary Todoroff >> Tree LUGger >> >> >> -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >