Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:05 PM 9/23/97 +0200, you wrote: > Why do you think, each and every >year Yosemite Park, the Pyramids, the "Wall" etc. has been and is >photographed by millions of persons, although you can buy better postcards >every 10 meters ? Personally I avoid such shots, but I understand why people take them. Postcard photographs are of a piece with the saturation of photographic images around us, but photographs we take are expressions of our experience. So the tourist snapshooter makes his or her photograph to say to himself or herself, "I was there. This really happened to me, and it wasn't just something I saw on TV." -- Personally, I can admire that aspect of it, although it does seem rather mindlessly repetitive at times.