Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In einer eMail vom 09.09.1997 09:45:01, schreiben Sie: > Tell me the truth Alf - what is your profession? Certainly > you are not a photographer. Are you a preacher or more likely > a school teacher. Have en-Joy-ed to read your letter ! After six years of "camera & out" street journalism as both, editor and freelancer (during the last 2 years in Germany's/ Europe's biggest daily newspaper), I studied psychology (mathematics, and physics) and have now a not so low position in a German Medical University, analysing and publishing surveys < smile > or clinical reports most of the time. While I "shot" winners (seldom), loosers (more often), and victims (most) for not so little money, my photographic view changed over the years to more tenderness and softness. The pix I always preferred have to be "touching", and emotional "tight" or "tense" (sorry, I don't know the correct english phrase). So, it's probably not surprising, that I like e.g. Weegee's hard sex & crime pix as much as Robert Lebeck's tender war child pix, or pix from Paul Fusco, Will McBride, HCB, Ansel Adams (landscapes), Jean Loup Sieff, Helmut Newton (early phase), and even some of Sarah Moon and Guy Bourdance, while e.g. M'thorpe's - not to speak of Hamilton's - views/ fingerprints are absolutely boring and too artificial for me. Does it answer your question? Alf