Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10 Apr 1998 09:09:58 -0400, Mike Johnston <70007.3477@compuserve.com> wrote: > I hate to be so wordy lately, Please. You present us with the well-crafted essays of a knowledgeable man. Would that we all tried harder to follow your example. > There is only a small historical/philosophical/critical tradition where > photography is concerned, but the best of it is rich. I could recommend ten > books that could keep anyone occupied for ten years. I'd love to see that list. Would you include Szarkowski's _Looking at Photographs_? How on earth did that get to be out-of-print? Do you consider A. D. Coleman insightful, or a blowhard, or both? :-) > A few more exercises: when you go to a museum, [...] > Do you use a bulletin board? [...] STUDY THE BORDERLINE ONES [...] these > are the pictures you'll learn the most from! I do fractions of these exercises informally; I suspect I'd learn from making an effort to do them more formally, and pay attention to any patterns which emerged. Thanks for the suggestions! A dog completely uninterested in new tricks might as well be put down.