Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whenever I see a picture, photograph or painting, I paraphrase the quote by Landor. (In fact I've paraphrased it so often and so much that in time it has probably become unrecognisable from the original which I can't remember) My version ... "A photograph is an instant in time, and like a note in music, means nothing without the note before and the note afterwards." And this is a problem, because the photographer that created the image took many hours over the task. From the initial scene, his composition, interpretation, cropping, to framing and display he lived with the image in all its passing phases. To the creator of the image, it sings a song. But to the CASUAL viewer it is a single note. So what, I hear you cry. Well, IMHO the beam is not balanced in the centre. It only requires a few words of poor criticsm to balance heaps and heaps of praise. Therefore it is important to remember this and apply tact when judging. QED. Alan Hull