Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:19 PM 10/8/97 +0100, you wrote: > >Tina, > >I agree with you on those so called artists. (I agree even more with you on >Calvin and Hobbes.) > >But besides lots of unattractive unartistic un-whatsoever unsharp underexposed >pictures I have seen only ONE of them which got me: It was a closeup portrait >of a face showing pain that I even now while writing it I feel uncomfortable. >So I don't think it is the unsharp/underexposed pictures which are bad, it is >the not existant message. Besides the message "hey I am a beginner taking bad >pictures"! > >If I understood your post right this was the main problem, the pictures did >not say anything. > >christoph > Right, Christoph! Robert Capa's ruined photographs of D-Day communicate the chaos of war. When I look at a photograph and cannot answer the question "Why did the photographer take this picture?", it has failed to say anything to me. Thanks to everyone for your opinions on Weltanschauung!! Tina - ------------------------------------------ Tina Manley, ASMP <http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html> <http://www.aperture-photo.com/site/reportage/manley/manleyframeset.html> <http://www.onlineartistleague.com/manleyt/portfoli.htm>