Re: [Leica] Leica in the future

[Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

r.e. your characterization of "art" types....yeah they may 
discuss paper, but I doubt it....you forgot substituting 
politics/political correctness of imagery for photographic 
knowledge-skill.....now THAT's the nineties.....I live it.

Walt


On Sun, 28 Feb
1999, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> A Month ago:
> After sweating away during sunny days in my darkroom for the last years
> I had been enthralled with what a revelation the split printing thing
> was for me and worked it out for months to years. Worked out a technique
> for myself that I was under the impression that others were doing as
> well that gave me ten times the control over my prints from my previous
> life in the darkroom over thirty years. And that was good because the
> process had just stared to feel constraining and otherwise frustratingly
> up in the air.
> And this new technique is possibly not for everybody.
> But then some guy posts in that he read in a magazine four years again that
> IT DOESNT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE!
> I said a few things in my defense in a tone that might have gotten a tad caustic.
> I think that when we are told that all are efforts to which we devote
> are life to don't make any difference we get a little red faced and say
> a few things.
> 
> I think that when you have a bunch of scientists sitting around on their
> coffee break shooting the breeze they are much more likely to put in
> verbal footnotes in their statements and observations that they make
> back and forth to each other. They are more likely to qualify their
> statements, its the way they are thought to think; the scientific method
> I think they call it.
> You get a group of artist types in a coffee clutch and what do they talk
> about? 
> Sex and Rock and Roll? Then they nod off. Which paper to use cause they
> like the smell, I don't know and this is probably my category.
> Then there are Business types: dollars and sense? Stockquotes? Don't ask
> me. 
> Social worker/Shrink types: Catharsis with no cleanup.
> Main categories of job descriptions that make us different types of
> people because we are what we do in most cases.
> We've got to respect each others frames of reference.
> Some of us take brilliant sharp technically perfect and boring pictures.
> Others of us take phantasmagorically brilliant expressive piercing
> images with dust spots and hypo stains and we are amazed when our film
> comes out at all.
> We have to have a little bit of both sides of the brain going for us or
> we are in a little bit of trouble here... in photography.
> Mark Rabiner 1999.9
>