[Leica] Barnack Award

[Howard Ritter]

No compositional technique
No technical accomplishment
No interesting situations or contexts
No pleasing juxtapositions of elements, colors
No dynamism (OK, once maybe)
No decisive moment
No personal insight or revelations re subjects
Overwrought art-appreciation 101 interpretive comments and interview responses
Hyperbolic characterization of the nature of the series 
“Truth of an undisguised moment”? No, just artless snapshots (not “snapshot-like”, but actual snapshots!) of passers-by on bikes and scooters
Standing in ankle-deep water? Oh, the humanity!

For heaven’s sake, these are FLASH SNAPS OF PASSING PEOPLE ON BIKES IN THE RAIN AT NIGHT! Now, that would have been an honest title! The only thing even moderately interesting is that they were taken by a young Polish woman in China who had the nerve (and rudeness) to ambush wet, inconvenienced, and annoyed people with a flash camera, without the language skills to ask permission or explain herself. That kind of “interesting” is probably not something that Oskar would like to have given his honorific to.

—howard

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Her snapshot-like images speak of the truth of an undisguised moment."
> 
> http://blog.leica-camera.com/leica-videos/wiktoria-wojciechowska-leica-oskar-barnack-newcomer-award-2015/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeicaCamera+%28Leica+Camera+Blog%29
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Tina
> 
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