[Leica] What is Epic?

[Richard Man]

Rather than DEFINING what Epic, I was actually just pointing out that
"Chasing Epic Pictures" by photographers, is something that a lot of us
do/want, regardless how epic is defined :-)

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> George,
> I agree 100% with your view.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:56 PM, George Lottermoser <
> george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sep 18, 2014, at 5:36 AM, Richard Man wrote:
> >
> > > Phillips asked about what is epicness. Well, someone else wrote about
> it:
> > > http://photofocus.com/2014/09/17/on-making-epic-photographs/
> > >
> > > Photographers are filled with the desire to make Epic images. That
> drive
> > > gets us up in the morning and keeps us staring into the monitor after
> > most
> > > have said "goodnight." It's what we do. We do it because it fills us
> up.
> > It
> > > satisfies. It completes us. It is often nothing less than our reason
> for
> > > being on the planet.
> >
> > Seems like an abuse of the term;
> > at least as defined in any good dictionary;
> > or as used in the literary and filmic traditions.
> >
> > I'd like to see 10 examples of
> > "Epic Photograph(s)"
> >
> > to help me understand how this term
> > is being used in this article.
> >
> > I would say that
> > http://www.amazon.com/Minamata-W-Eugene/dp/093826205X
> > qualifies as an Epic Photographic Essay
> >
> > Regards,
> > George Lottermoser
> >
> > http://www.imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com/blog
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >
> >
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