Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I see photographs that (to me) convey a mood or emotion, rather than just depict a subject, I hear music in my mind, influenced by the mood conveyed by the picture. Does anyone else get such cross-influencing of sensory impression, or do I just need to see a shrink? ;-) __________________ REPLY: No shrink necessary. Good photographs do convey a sense of time, place, event, mood, etc. Look at certain photos, you will hear certain music. Hear certain music, you will "see" certain pictures in your mind and conjure up certain events. I can hear a given rock number and think, "Thanksgiving vacation, 1964, Concord, Mass., 5 p.m., it's snowing." (Well, maybe one of us needs a shrink :-) ) Seriously, though, look at the best of the photos in Requiem and you can practically feel the heat, smell the stink, hear the racket, feel the fear. Isn't that what good photography is really all about?