Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alan Hull wrote: >But at least they tried. The experiment failed for >technical reasons not for aesthetic. Ansel Adams failed? People will probably still be buying reproductions of his photos long after I'm dead and gone... If you consider "failure" to be that other photographers moved onto different techniques such as abstraction, then the baroque style of painting which you seek to emulate ("cheezy", as an art prof. eloquently described it once) is dead and rotting. Does it invalidate it as an art form? Hardly. If you like it, by all means, tape your aperture rings down at f/16 and click away. In terms of the harsh responses your original post elicited from the group, you must realize that your post was rather insistent, to put it kindly. When you tell a couple hundred successful professional photographers and accomplished amateurs that their photography basically sucks, how can you expect not be flamed?