Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Laughing Photos
From: "Alan Hull" <hull@vaggeryd.mail.telia.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:29:47 +0200

> From: Chandos Michael Brown 

> 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.
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Burlesque?  Is that American for slap-stick, the custard pie in the
face?  If so I think you are right.  By comparison to subtle humour, it
would be easier to create.  But still worthwhile.

Alan Hull