[Leica] RAMBLA by Josep Maria de Llobet

[Frank Filippone]

Isn't most architectural and especially documentary architectural photography like that?  Not Art?

I agree with you in this way:  It is not MY idea of art, either.

Yes you are right, the guy shot for some purpose, what we will never truly know as only HE knows why, and some company either sponsored the shooting ( 
the camera costs in excess of $50K) or paid for the rights to use it in an advertisement.

It is the commercialization of photography.

There is another rather beautiful (IMO) Hasselblad ad that has a Black woman framed against a blue wall, using white folded paper as a clothing that 
is also quite nice.....

take a look:

https://www.hasselblad.com/inspiration/stories/gavin-goodman-sculptural-headwear-x1d-ii-50c/?utm_source=Hasselblad+End+Users&utm_campaign=8854b4be07-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_25_12_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_16f5cb481a-8854b4be07-349941021

Nathan:  What do you think of this commercialization?


Frank Filippone
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On 7/7/2021 9:54 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I just found the pics somewhat mediocre. I get the idea of photographing empty streets during the lockdown—I did that too—but please do not tell me 
> that these images are Art. They are marketing material for a company. It’s like when I see references to “Leica photographer” or “Nikon 
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>> On 7 Jul 2021, at 20:50, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: May I concur? Been there (Ramblas) many times, and done both, I still dk 
>> what I shot better. But Lluis, mon Ami, sure does rule when people are involved :-) Amities Philippe
>>> Le 7 juil. 2021 à 20:34, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit : Accept a different aesthetic? Call it documentary architecture? 
>>> Different purpose? No picture is "better" or "worse" than another. Only different. Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
>>>> Pics are decent but do not even approach what our Lluis does. Cheers, Nathan
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