Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > At 10:52 AM 5/3/99 -0700, you wrote: > >We look past the reality that the concept of PHOTOGRAPHY IS SIMPLE. > > It most certainly is not. Photography on the hack level might be easy, but > there isn't a camera that can make perfect exposures in any possible > situation. So someone who wants to get beyond the snapshot (in the simple > meaning of the term, not the genre that the art world has conjured up) has > to work at it. snip PHOTOGRAPHY IS SIMPLE is a statement that could be in some contexts be commendable but in most cases distortive. Many of us photographers may have through low self esteem gotten into a field which would require dumb easy diligence. But we had to disenthrall ourselves from a simplistic tactic as we found ourselves challenged. Mark Rabiner and then retire with our simple box camera