Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/07/08

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Subject: [Leica] RAMBLA by Josep Maria de Llobet
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:18:06 +0530
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Seems more like a lesson in origami.... ?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 2:01 AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Isn't most architectural and especially documentary architectural
> photography like that?  Not Art?
>
> I agree with you in this way:  It is not MY idea of art, either.
>
> Yes you are right, the guy shot for some purpose, what we will never truly
> know as only HE knows why, and some company either sponsored the shooting (
> the camera costs in excess of $50K) or paid for the rights to use it in an
> advertisement.
>
> It is the commercialization of photography.
>
> There is another rather beautiful (IMO) Hasselblad ad that has a Black
> woman framed against a blue wall, using white folded paper as a clothing
> that
> is also quite nice.....
>
> take a look:
>
>
> https://www.hasselblad.com/inspiration/stories/gavin-goodman-sculptural-headwear-x1d-ii-50c/?utm_source=Hasselblad+End+Users&utm_campaign=8854b4be07-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_25_12_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_16f5cb481a-8854b4be07-349941021
>
> Nathan:  What do you think of this commercialization?
>
>
> Frank Filippone
> BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
> On 7/7/2021 9:54 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> > I just found the pics somewhat mediocre. I get the idea of photographing
> empty streets during the lockdown?I did that too?but please do not tell me
> > that these images are Art. They are marketing material for a company.
> It?s like when I see references to ?Leica photographer? or ?Nikon
> > photographer?. I usually cringe. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante,
> Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http://
> > <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK:
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog:
> > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <
> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling:
> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
> > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA "I?m not arguing,
> I?m just explaining why I?m right"
> >> On 7 Jul 2021, at 20:50, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> >> wrote:
> May I concur? Been there (Ramblas) many times, and done both, I still dk
> >> what I shot better. But Lluis, mon Ami, sure does rule when people are
> involved :-) Amities Philippe
> >>> Le 7 juil. 2021 ? 20:34, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at 
> >>> leica-users.org>
> a ?crit : Accept a different aesthetic? Call it documentary architecture?
> >>> Different purpose? No picture is "better" or "worse" than another.
> Only different. Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
> >>>> Pics are decent but do not even approach what our Lluis does. Cheers,
> Nathan
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