Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]EPL OFFERED: Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions >>> For me, a better photo of PET was taken by Doug Ball, in London, >>> England, in > 1977. It shows Trudeau pirouetting behind H.R.M. Elizabeth II and her > entourage, all oblivious to Trudeau's balletic maneuver.<<<< IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING.....THE PHOTO AS A PIROUETTE IS MEANINGLESS! It's only the caption that tells you what he is doing that makes it an understandable photo! This is a motion moment stopped in a still photo! Sorry you need no explanation for my photograph what is happening. BECAUSE YOU SEE HIM SLIDING DOWN A STAIR CASE RAILING! NO WORDS REQUIRED! Because the action is alive and understandable without a word written! >>>> To be clear, I'm now saying that Trudeau on the banister would have >>>> been > wonderful as colour video -- full motion, with sound!<<<< Sorry mate you have the video on the wrong photograph! Sure it would've been interesting, but not necessary to see and understand what's happening. After all, you are comparing action in two different still photographs! One seeably understandable! The other "what's he doing facing the wrong way to everybody else?"" >>Wikipedia refers to Doug Ball's photo as "arguably the most famous photo >>of Trudeau." <<<<< Hang on fella! We're not comparing photographer friends of many years. Besides Wikipedia isn't 100% perfect any time! And how do you know Wikipedia has even seen my photograph? Millions of others have. They know the photo anytime you ask about it! HOWEVER MOST HAVE NO IDEA WHO THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS! That is until they find out it was me!! And I immediately receive a great big hand shake of congratulations! Need I say more! >>>> Most of the great B&W photos (I worry about this icon stuff too, seems > somehow connected to souls...) were taken at a time when there was no > colour > film. B&W photography ain't coming back, despite the Leica MM <<<<<<< So B&W isn't coming back? God me old son, I hope you live long enough to see that happen. And the MM isn't going to be the factor to bring it back. It will simply be the creative people in the arts, hobbies, design, art directors and advertising! Art galleries and whatever other uses/users that will have it return just as it did in the late '70's and early '80's! It will return despite your antiquated thinking of souls etc! >>Death seems to be about fading into the momentary White and then into the >>permanent Black. That's why we don't want to go There.<<<<<<<< MAN YOU ARE ONE SICK SON OF A BITCH! Jeeeesh Emanuel I never thought you were this type of person? Have a nice black-day Friday! cheers, Dr. ted :-( > Ted Grant blasted: >> >> SO EMANUEL WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS??? >> >> My photograph of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau of Canada sliding >> down a stair case bannister hands held on high doesn't count, because >> it's >> shot in B&W. And not Velvia?????? >> >> When it's recognized as the most iconic politcal photograph in the >> history >> of Canada! Not by me, but the National Archives of Canada and many other >> organizations of similar position. >> >> Is that correct good Sir? >> > > To be clear, I'm now saying that Trudeau on the banister would have been > wonderful as colour video -- full motion, with sound! > > For me, a better photo of PET was taken by Doug Ball, in London, England, > in > 1977. It shows Trudeau pirouetting behind H.R.M. Elizabeth II and her > entourage, all oblivious to Trudeau's balletic maneuver. > > That's the Trudeau I recognize. (Full disclosure: he was my M.P. and > worked > down the street from me after he retired from politics and got back into > law. I'd run into him on the corner at lunch hour.) > > Wikipedia refers to Doug Ball's photo as "arguably the most famous photo > of > Trudeau." > > Ball also captured Robert Stanfield's infamous football fumble, which "is > said to have cost him (and the Conservative Party) the election." > > I worry when folks talk about souls, photographed or otherwise. It's a > quaintly hopeful idea for the artsy photographer or for the pious. From > what > I can see, Life is in Living Colour. Death seems to be about fading into > the > momentary White and then into the permanent Black. That's why we don't > want > to go There. > > Most of the great B&W photos (I worry about this icon stuff too, seems > somehow connected to souls...) were taken at a time when there was no > colour > film. B&W photography ain't coming back, despite the Leica MM. > > Emanuel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information