Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fun, funny? What can possibly be amusing about Leicas? That's a joke . . . sort of. The photo to which you refer is, I think, by Eisenstadt. It's of a band major in full regalia trailed by mimicing children; he talks about its composition in Willard and Morgan, 10th ed. I'm at the office now, but I'll check when I get home. I agree that "sentiment" is often easier to capture in a photograph than "humor," as such. Tends to play itself out in ironizing juxtapositions, sight gags, as it were. Burlesque is easier to represent in a photo, at least so it seems to me. Chandos >The most famous photographs have humour. But nobody remembers the >photographer. Strange. How many of you know who took the picture of >the "Policemans helmet and the streaker" ? And my favourite, the youth >dressed as a toy soldier high stepping across a field with some cheeky >urchins mimiking him from behind? > >Alan Hull >