Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:57 AM 10/13/98 -0500, you wrote: >I guess it only goes to show what a shallow person I am because I was >looking again at Haas' work (yesterday) and I'm still not impressed with >it. It appears to me to be just gimmicky stuff using slow shutter >speeds. Well, you need to see more of his stuff, that's all. His blurred photos of the matadors was quite groundbreaking in the history of photography. He had no choice with ISO 10 Kodachrome but to blur them, but he had the vision to see the possibility that blurred color photos would have an artistic expression. In one photojournalism conference (From R. Smith Schunneman's books "Photographic Communication") Haas talked about studying the master painters, and not other photographers to get ideas. That photographers should be "renaissance men" (or women Tina!) so that we produce new work with true innovation (for photography anyway). Haas had a wonderful eye for color. Probably one of the best ever. But the reproduction some of his of his work in the 60s and 70s can't do justice to his images by today's standards. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math