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 06:42 PM 4/13/98 -0400, you wrote: > I cannot speak for Mr. Kachadurian (who, in any case, speaks perfectly > well for himself), but I would like to suggest that this is a question > not of quantity of knowledge but rather type of knowledge. Obviously > it is not true that "things can ONLY...be appreciated when you know > just enough but not too much" [emphasis added]. A work of art (piece I agree. Many people think Jascha Heifitz is the greatest violinist who ever lived. He was a great technician, but there was not nearly the feeling in his work that one will hear in the work of Fritz Kreisler (my violin teacher's father introduced Kreisler to the U.S. so I might be prejudiced there) or Nathan Milstein, or Stern or Zuckerman or Perlman. But who would notice but someone who was intimately familiar with violin technique, or at least someone who really knows music? How does this become an analog for photography? It think it's obvious. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence...