Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/28

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Subject: [Leica] S2 on a Safari
From: scleroplex at gmail.com (scleroplex)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:07:38 -0400
 
i totally agree!

it's only on entering my 40s that i realise how much the need to
belong to some group drives people's behaviour in many diverse areas.

it is possible taking an 'encyclopedia picture' validates people's
lives in their own minds.

i don't know what has been written about this by 'scholars' already.

i would be interested to read about it.

recently i have been re/reading a lot of books on this need.

for example - Belonging and Genocide by Thomas Kuhne and Obedience to
Authority by Stanley Milgram and Hitler's Professors: Second Edition
by Max Weinreich

bharani



Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:03:11 -0400
From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
Subject: [Leica] S2 on a Safari
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"?the Encyclopedia Syndrome.  What I mean by this is that they shoot the

same pictures  ?seen in books for many decades over and over again. I think

you know what I mean?  They usually have no compelling message and mediocre

lighting. They are the perfect pictures for an encyclopedia? but from an

artistic photographic perspective the images are boring and have little

value."

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I though he was talking about Yellowstone Park. If I see one more picture of
El Capitan I think I'll barf.

Larry Z