[Leica] Photo show dissent

[Mark Rabiner]

Just saw your jpegs her and the last two are great photos.
So that's great art.
Sorry!


On 3/22/15 4:39 PM, "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> I just came back from the Westchester Photo Show where four of my older
> photographs were hung. They stood out like sore thumbs. Not because they were
> inferior but because they were different. All of mine were street photos or
> pseudo street photos, slices of life taken in my usual adventitious manner.
> Several were in my LUG gallery and were taken on film. I'd be the first to
> admit that they are not great pictures but they were a sample of my
> photographic endeavors.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Cook.jpeg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Coppersmith.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/The+valve+room.jpg.html
> Most of the other pictures exhibited were carefully posed, highly processed
> images which tried to emulate fine art. I've always believed, as have most
> Luggers, that art and photography are two different media, each with its
> advantages and disadvantages. An artist can take time to pose the subject
> appropriately, choose colors, and accentuate what he or she chooses. It is a
> contemplative and imaginative medium. Photography, on the other hand, is ideal
> for catching slices of life which may vanish in a fraction of a second.?It is
> a realistic and immediate medium.
> What was most interesting is that several exhibiting photographers maintained
> that the original image was not the end in itself but merely the starting
> point for intensive manipulation in Photoshop. Indeed, some of the pictures
> were so significantly altered that they bore little resemblence to the actual
> scene. Colors were changed, portions of the image were accentuated or
> eliminated. The worst case, in my opinion, was a photograph which combined
> several individual photos in one displayed image. Just like the Russian Mayday
> podium pictures.
> I'm coming to believe that exhibited photos should bear a warning label, like
> foodstuffs, noting if any artificial ingredients were used in the
> presentation.
> Larry Z
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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