Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: >Ansel Adams' pictures have impact for many > reasons, two of them being technical mastery, and the content. (One has to > appreciate the American West to really understand his work.) > > The same can be said about Sebastiao Salgado's work. Beautiful (not > everyone agrees) and gripping in content. Very powerful. Technical quality > can play into why a picture has impact. But a technically beautiful > photograph with no real content is like playing scales on a grand piano. At the pro level, technical perfection is the bottom rung requirement, your ante just to play in the game. It is talent, determination, connections, serendipity, and marketing acumen that get you onto the higher rungs. Antonin Kratochvil, interviewed in the current Photo District News, was asked what advice he could give someone trying to break into photography: "Two things: persistence and a wealthy daddy." donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego http://www.donalphilby.com