[Leica] Humanistic Photography Revisted

[Lluis Ripoll]

Dear Leon,

Thank you very much!

All the best!
Lluis


El 18/01/2015, a las 07:59, Leon Pomeroy <drleonpomeroy at verizon.net> escribió:

> Lluis:  You thoughts and sentiments expressed below are beautiful and well
> said! I feel "it," but can't quite touch "it" .yet. But then I delight in
> the journey of striving without worrying about arriving. Your thoughts are
> worth repeating and so I quote you, Dr. Leon Pomeroy, Northern Virginia, USA
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 
> First all thank you for your words to my work, your words are, as usual, a
> true lesson.  I?m reading a small book recently published of interviews to
> HCB and I realize several things, he has two special sentences that caught
> my interest ?I?m not interested for the photography it is the life what
> interest me? and ?the art of viewing is everything?. This sounds me?.
> someone has make a DVD I saw several times ?The Art of Observation??. I
> think your e-mail deserves a deep personal response. I think that when
> someone start into the photography the main concern is take pictures, nice
> pictures, when you become more experienced the main concern is capturing the
> essence of the life, and I think as well, you shall be rich in your inner
> life to be able to view and capture the life around you. Actually I?m mostly
> interested to read and know about the thoughts of the great photographers
> than to see the images, imaging can not be just an aesthetic result but a
> consequence of introspection, what can otherwise help our gaze be surprised
> by everything we see?. When I was young, I was admiring the great
> photographers visiting exotic Countries, I was not able to do the same, on
> the other side I?ve discovered the great humanistic photographers, Doisneau,
> Izis, Weiss, Ronis, Boubat, Riboud, Mary Ellen Mark ? and many others and
> I?ve asked my self why are they surprised by their look by the everyday life
> around them?? if they have found it, I shall do an effort and try to find
> also the same impact. I?m sorry for this explanation, but this explain one
> of the reasons how and why I?ve became interested for the kind of
> photography I?m doing. You have said another memorable  sentence: YOU CAN
> ONLY SHOW IT, TELL THEM, AGAIN & AGAIN! "But you ain't going to teach it! I
> feel very honored and excited with the words you say to me, really, I do not
> deserve such. Not if I can teach, however, I would be satisfied if he knew
> how analyze their pictures. In the LUG we have a very high photographic
> quality level, however I see much worth what abounds in the world of
> photography, pure garbage from pictures made in the street who think they
> are street photography, others taken with the sole obsession to demonstrate
> the exceptional qualities of a new lens inadvertently falling into marketing
> the manufacturers own favor, with many photographs pictures. Perhaps this is
> a emerging new photographic specialty ?Camera Tester"? I apologize if you
> think that what I have written I want to give a lesson, is not it, I think
> it is the first time in my life I express with all sincerity and humility
> what I really think and feel, and only show it by gratitude and answer to my
> dear friend Ted. When something is done  spontaneously by instinct, is not a
> merit, it is a natural characteristic to follow as simply as my friend
> advised saying "KISS" Thank You! Cheers Lluis
> 
> 
> 
> 
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