Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Eric's site & the LUG Gestapo
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 17:08:42 -0500

At 08:47 AM 4/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
>My philosophical question is, artistically, what is GOOD photography?
>A 6 year old with a P&S could just as easily win a prize as an old, bitter
>photographer who has been perfecting his craft for 50 years.  So who is
>"better?"

Considering the picture of Yeltsin dancing won a Pulitzer proves this to be
true. As a matter of fact, several amateurs have won the Pulitzer. But
that's because it's not judged for photographic quality, but for "being
there" when something happened.

Pictures of the Year, or World Press Photo are much better judges of who is
good as the years pass.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence...