Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't think we're in disagreement -- I think any of those photos work without the text -- as is evidenced by the "best of life magazine" book we all probably have that has many of the magazines beautiful images without their accompanying stories, but with the articles & words they are made stronger. the words don't prop up the image, rather they augment them. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:33 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > Objective criteria for visual art, music or literature > is certainly hard to come by. > Someone always breaks the rules brilliantly > to take us to the next level. > > And I'm not necessarily referring to > photographers providing their own "verse" with their "imagery." > I'm rather thinking about the power of Weston's daybooks, > Minor Whites years at Aperture, Life and Look magazines, > Avedon and Baldwin's "Nothing Personal," etc. > > (I'm also referring to words and pictures working together > in the form of great posters > <http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/small/6_01_sm.jpg> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago8.jpg>, > words in paintings, etc.) p://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > On Aug 26, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Oliver Bryk wrote: > >> It's an interesting subject. I have yet to find an objective criterion for >> "well composed". I will, however, allow that whenever I have picked up a >> book of very good photographs, each of which was accompanied by the >> photographer's verse, I did not buy the book. By contrast I enjoy my copy >> of >> Mary Austin's "Land of Little Rain" with Ansel Adams's photographs whose >> legends repeat a line or a phrase from her text. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >