Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just saw your jpegs her and the last two are great photos. So that's great art. Sorry! On 3/22/15 4:39 PM, "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > I just came back from the Westchester Photo Show where four of my older > photographs were hung. They stood out like sore thumbs. Not because they > were > inferior but because they were different. All of mine were street photos or > pseudo street photos, slices of life taken in my usual adventitious manner. > Several were in my LUG gallery and were taken on film. I'd be the first to > admit that they are not great pictures but they were a sample of my > photographic endeavors. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Cook.jpeg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Coppersmith.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/The+valve+room.jpg.html > Most of the other pictures exhibited were carefully posed, highly processed > images which tried to emulate fine art. I've always believed, as have most > Luggers, that art and photography are two different media, each with its > advantages and disadvantages. An artist can take time to pose the subject > appropriately, choose colors, and accentuate what he or she chooses. It is > a > contemplative and imaginative medium. Photography, on the other hand, is > ideal > for catching slices of life which may vanish in a fraction of a second.?It > is > a realistic and immediate medium. > What was most interesting is that several exhibiting photographers > maintained > that the original image was not the end in itself but merely the starting > point for intensive manipulation in Photoshop. Indeed, some of the pictures > were so significantly altered that they bore little resemblence to the > actual > scene. Colors were changed, portions of the image were accentuated or > eliminated. The worst case, in my opinion, was a photograph which combined > several individual photos in one displayed image. Just like the Russian > Mayday > podium pictures. > I'm coming to believe that exhibited photos should bear a warning label, > like > foodstuffs, noting if any artificial ingredients were used in the > presentation. > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/