Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > >>> _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information