[Leica] A few thoughts on street photography

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Lluis,
The painter has an advantage - he can paint whatever is in his mind's eye,
he is not restrained by realities! He is also not constrained by location,
as a photographer is, so by definition his canvas of subject matter is
infinitely greater. They are similar, but at the same time, quite
dissimilar arts.

Like Shakespeare said in A Midsummer's Night Dream, about a poet, but
equally applicable to a painter - but not a photographer:

And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:51 AM, lluisripollphotography <
lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jayanand,
>
> When I see these things I think we are apprentices, the art of photography
> has not evolved so much if we take these references or if we remember the
> photography of Kertesz or that of Jacques Henri Lartigue, I was lucky some
> years ago o watch a big exhibition of his work and I was really atonished
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> > El 13 febr 2017, a les 6:22, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> va escriure:
> >
> > Lluis,
> > I agree with your premise. My interest in Hogarth is more as a court
> > satirist, and as a very observant purveyor of parodies, in which garb he
> > was devastating!
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:02 PM, lluisripollphotography <
> > lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Gerry,
> >>
> >> Of course I agree your words and also I’m glad to see a new coincidence
> >> between us, since my 20 years that a French girlfriend has gift me the
> >> complete works of Baudelaire I’m a lover of this author I have almost
> read
> >> everything of his work. However I would say that in my opinion no Art is
> >> definitely, they are complementing and the evolution helps to new forms
> of
> >> art.
> >>
> >> Before the photography existed I would mention some great painters that
> in
> >> my opinion with the tools of their times they have very well represented
> >> their times: Goya, Rembrandt, and the British William Hogarth, I was
> >> impressed when I had saw an exhibition in Barcelona of his work,
> >> particularly for his engravures (like Goya), I remember I thought that
> this
> >> could be equivalent to street photography.
> >>
> >> <http://www.wikiwand.com/en/William_Hogarth#/Painter_and_
> >> engraver_of_modern_moral_subjects <http://www.wikiwand.com/en/
> >> William_Hogarth#/Painter_and_engraver_of_modern_moral_subjects>>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Lluis
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> El 12 febr 2017, a les 12:58, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> va
> escriure:
> >>>
> >>> Just a few words on my blog:
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>> Gerry
> >>>
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> >>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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