Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/23

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Subject: [Leica] PESO: No American
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:40:01 -0500
References: <CBB9EB4D.1D66A%mark@rabinergroup.com>

On Apr 22, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> "As of 2011, about 5.5 billion out of the approximate 6.92 billion people 
> on
> Earth do not speak English as either a first language or a second language.
> "So to those people this image is meaningless.
> Which is why my high school photography teacher did not accept those kinds
> of pictures; refereeing to them as "bumper stickers". Nor did my college
> photography teachers.
> A picture is worth thousand words but if its a "picture" of  three words
> its worth three words. And only to those people who read that language.
> 
> I'd call this picture an extremely poorly executed text orientated sight 
> gag
> which basically thumbs its nose at anybody who gives a rats ass about
> photography.

Limiting iconography in the visual arts seems absolutely silly
to anyone who gives a rat's ass about art.

<http://tinyurl.com/88gfmky>

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist







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