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Subject: [Leica] How big can you print a 35mm photo?
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:39:02 -0800
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On Mar 3, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Ken Carney wrote:

> On 3/2/2010 3:27 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>>   
> Hmmm.  I remember reading that Edward Weston said, if you don't know what 
> to photograph, look down at your feet.  I was never sure what that meant, 
> but now I see part of it, especially the out of focus part.  Maybe 
> autofocus would be best after a bender.  And image stabilization.  And 
> automatic sensor cleaning.

you must have been a riot under anesthesia...


:-)


Steve



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