[Leica] Sally Mann and her lens

[Richard Man]

..and sold var millions but you confusing her with Gursky et al
On Dec 8, 2014 9:06 PM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> And the resulting garbage is printed HUGE and hung in art galleries.
>
> On 9 Dec 2014, at 04:09, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
>
> > A commentary on our obsession with FLE ASPH ED OIS lens?
> >
> > ***********
> > I certainly could go out and buy a good, tack-sharp lens that would take
> > the perfect picture, that's in focus from end to end. But instead, I
> spend
> > an awful lot of time at that antique mall, looking around for these
> lenses
> > with just the right amount of decrepitude. The glue has to be peeling off
> > of the lens elements; it's great if it's mildewed and out of whack. A
> lens
> > is made up of several different pieces of glass, which are supposed to
> stay
> > glued in the right relationship with each other. But my most prized lens
> > has one of the pieces of glass askew, so when the light comes in it, it's
> > refulgent. It just bounces all around and does this great sort of
> > luminescent thing on the glass. You can tell a good ruined lens, right
> from
> > the get-go: they are the ones you find in the trash cans of old photo
> > studios, in some ghost town in Iowa. I mean, that's the kind of lens I'm
> > looking for.
> >
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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> >
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