Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:58 AM 4/10/98 -0600, you wrote: >I probably responded least of all to the stained glass images, yet they were >well-crafted. Why? Because while these might be part of an effective series >of images, alone, they do not tell me how it feels to be standing in that >space, amidst those illuminated panes; I have a number of such photos I know exactly what you mean. I just liked the pictures. I'm taking them this way for a specific reason. I do have some pictures from the past that have the kind of "being there" kind of experience. But in this case, I'm actually working on a project on different stained glass in many churches around the area. Only one of the convent pictures on my web site will actually run in the paper. >Freeman Patterson has, unfortunately, chosen to put few images on his site, >but he's published an artist's statement which is well worth a read: >http://www.houssennet.nb.ca/pub/DEC/artstate.htm >What can you say about a man who can create magic from such simple subject >matter as sunlight shining on his dining table? I am a big fan of Freeman Patterson. He wrote his dissertation on religion and photography when he was studying to be a minister, which fortunately didn't happen. Not that he wouldn't have made a good minister, but we'd miss his wonderful eye! I asked him if he still had the dissertation when I met him in Saskatoon (at the camera store where I saw my first Leica!), but he said someone had stolen it from the library where it was stored. Too bad, I'd like to see what he had to say about that subject. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch They have what is rare in still photography - the mobility of film, motion, evanescence, fluidity...your camera has a thousand eyes which are directed by love and feeling. - -Anias Nin