[Leica] Seven decades of classic photography from the Observer

[Peter Dzwig]

I wonder if the fact that you can't take as many photos with film as you can
with digital makes you concentrate more on what you are photographing and how
you do it. That in turn may lead to different styles of photography, as
different from 35mm film as 35mm is from wetplate.

An example might be that a lot of digital images are much less likely to be
posed; more "snaps" (I am not talking about LUGers shots here). I recently went
to see the Vivien Maier exhibition "Chroniques Américains" in France. I was very
much struck by the picture taken in Florida of a woman in a ball gown walking
towards a big fifties car (it's about halfway down this page:
http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/vivian-maier/ ). It could only be film: the
blurring, the depth of shadow, the opportunism all say "film" to me.

Peter

On 07/12/2016 19:29, Lluis Ripoll Photography wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> I’ve started on digital in 2009. I think it not has influenced on my work, maybe I’ve increased the night work, for me one of the things producing a change on my work has been that the “click” is much more quite on a classical M than on a digital, the recent last M’s M240, 246 … are much more quite than the M9 or the first Monochrom
> 
> Lluis
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> El 7 des 2016, a les 20:13, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va escriure:
>>
>> Both,
>>
>> beautiful images.
>>
>> Luis, is 2004 when you went digital? Is it just me or is it that digital has
>> completely changed styles of photography? I sometimes feel as if film yields a
>> different type of image because of the difference in working with it. Does
>> anyone agree?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On 06/12/2016 00:38, Lluis Ripoll Photography wrote:
>>> Gerry,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for sharing these masterpieces I will be never tired to look at. 
>>>
>>> When I see these I’m more convinced that the perfection of the digital images has spoiled the magic charme of the classical photography and even I regret more and more to have discontinued the use of film, even if in my opinion, it is no more as it was in the past. 
>>>
>>> Even looking at my own film pictures, lately I’m working a lot with my old pictures, I can see a difference between the pictures I shoot before the year … say 2004 and the later ones…. Did you noticed this?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Lluis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> El 4 des 2016, a les 8:23, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> va escriure:
>>>>
>>>> A great ‘anthology’ of 70 years of images from some of the best around:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/gallery/2016/dec/03/seven-decades-of-classic-photography-from-the-observer?CMP=share_btn_link 
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy!
>>>>
>>>> Gerry  
>>>>
>>>>
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