[Leica] RAMBLA by Josep Maria de Llobet

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Seems more like a lesson in origami.... 😇
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 2:01 AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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
> BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
> 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
> > photographer”. I usually cringe. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante,
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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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